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Bees on the brink
PICKAWAY COUNTY, OHIO, JUL 25 – Scientists link rising temperatures, parasites, and habitat loss to a 56% decline in U.S. honeybee colonies, threatening crop pollination and prompting urgent research needs.
- Earlier this year, the annual U.S. Beekeeping Survey found almost 56% of managed honeybee colonies lost, the highest since 2010.
- Barnes, who operates Honeyrun Farm, faces heat hampers bees' ability to fend off parasitic mites, impacting hive management, as overheating prevents applying formic acid organic treatment.
- According to a study published last year, honeybees use fewer but harder wingbeats to avoid overheating, helping regulate body temperature up to 27°F above the air.
- The Trump administration’s proposal would threaten USGS Bee Lab research, Jon Harrison, environmental physiologist at Arizona State University, said his research would halt if funding is cut.
- Without effective intervention, climate change could threaten pollination, causing fruit, vegetable, nut, coffee, and chocolate shortages; scientists are studying rising temperatures’ effects on bees.
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Bees trying to cope with warming Earth
WILLIAMSPORT, Ohio — Sweat covers Isaac Barnes's face under his beekeeper's veil as he hauls boxes of honeycomb from his hives to his truck. It's a workout in what feels like a sauna as the late-morning June temperatures rise.
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Bees on the brink
Using an innovative robotic platform to observe bees' behavior, researchers showed that, following exposure to neonicotinoid pesticides -- the most commonly-used class of pesticides in agriculture -- bees spent less time nursing larvae and were less social that other bees. Additional tests showed that exposure impaired bees ability to warm the nest, and to build insulating wax caps around the colony.
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