Willumsport, Ohio (AP) – Sweat covers the face of Isaac bars under its bee spinach veil because he shakes the box of Honeycomm from his urticar to his truck. It is a workout that feels like a sauna because the temperature of June increases in late June.
Although the barns were hot, their bees were even more hot. Their body temperature can be 27 degrees Fahrenheit (about 15 Celsius) higher than the air around them. As Global temperature increase Under climate change, scientists are managed and trying to understand the effects on wild bees better because they pollinate crops, collect nectar, make honey and breed.
He saw that the flying bees had collected nectar. Study Published last year. Scientists also say that bees – like people – can also face a cooler environment such as shade or their nests.
John Harrison, one of the environmental physiologists and authors of the study of Arizona State University, said, “As we go into the shade, or we can sweat or we can work less, bees actually do the same thing so that they can avoid heat,” said John Harrison, an environmental physicist and authors of Arizona State University.
But this means that bees are not able to do what they do in general, Kevin McCluni said, Professor of Biology of Bowling Green State University.
“They are not going out and getting more nectar. They are not having sexual intercourse. They are not doing things that will otherwise do bees,” McCluni said.
Heat is just a challenge for important pollination
Generally, most bees are heat-tolerant, but as a climate, some experts feel that their ability to cure the disease and collect food may be difficult. And the loss of habitat, pesticides, diseases and the use of fodder deficiency for both managed and wild bees are all listed as possible contributors Global decline of bees and other pollpers,
“If you are well fed, and your body is drunk with pesticides and a lot of diseases in your body,” said the health expert in Pennsylvania State University.
earlier this year, Preliminary results from the annual US beekeeping survey It was found that beekeepers lost about 56% of their managed colonies, the most damage since the survey began in 2010.
Almost all managed honeybee colonies in the US are used to pollute agricultural crops such as almonds, apples, cherries and blueberries. Lower pollination Can cause low pollination and potentially low yields.
“This is a very delicate system if you think of it,” Lopez-Urb said. “Because if something goes wrong, you have these super high-value crops that will not get enough bees for pollination.”
Hitti in Hanirun Farms
Back on the bins of the bars in Ohio, thousands of honeybies fly around because he assembles boxes to take back to his farm for the production of honey. Nearby, a rare bit of plant diversity in the area dominated by a couple, corn and soybean fields on milk flowers.
For Bars, one of the challenges, one of the challenges, can pose his 500 Honeybee urticaria with his wife, genes, which is away from parasitic mites that threatened bees. If the temperature becomes too hot, it cannot apply formic acid, an organic chemical that kills mites. If it is applied when it is very hot, bees may die.
Last year, he lost about one third of 400 urticaria, which he was sent to California to pollinate commercial almond trees. Barns feel that they may be in poor health before the urticaria pollination because they were unable to close the mites when they were hot months ago.
“Dead urticaries are not polluting almonds,” he said. “This is a real wave effect that stems back from heat in summer.”
Sometimes heat helps. Here in Ohio, the bins of the bars produced a bumper crop of honey in the last summer, as they used to feast on nearby soybeans nectar as the plants blossomed in the heat. Nevertheless, the lack of diverse plants is not ideal for bees in the area dominated by corn and soybean areas.
And even indigenous blooms are visible incorrectly, Barses said. In the autumn, their bees discover food on the goldenroad, but they are seen later in blooming. And yet, they have complemented their hive with extra food to keep them healthy in winter.
“Every plant that blooms is something that can use a bee,” Barns said. “And every plant is affected by climate change.”
Research can help bees is in crisis
It is only in the last decade that people of the Arizona State University Harrison said that people have come to know about the magnitude of pollination globally. The data is limited on how much the fall in climate change and heat stress pollination contributes.
“This is a relatively new meditation for biology,” he said. “I think it’s super important, but it is not being studied a ton.”
The proposed budget of the Trump administration will end the research program that funds the USGS B Lab, which supports the nation’s inventory, monitoring and natural history. Other grants for bee research are also in danger.
Oregon’s American Sen Jeff Markle said that the US pollinator is in “serious threats”, and he would fight for federal funding. He said that pollutants contribute to the health of the planet, the crops we grow and the food we eat, they said.
In a statement to the Associated Press, he said, “Instead of taking adventure action to protect them, the Trump administration has proposed a careless budget that will make funding zero for important research aimed at saving important pollinators.”
Harrison said that his research on the subject would come to a stop if the deduction is done in their federal funding, and it would be normally more difficult for scientists to study the disappearance of bees and other pollpers and how they prevent these damage. Not being able to manage the deaths of these pollinators can cause fruits, vegetables, nuts, Coffee And Chocolate To jump or rare.
“Hopefully, even though such research has been defined in the US, but such research will continue in Europe and China, stopping these extreme scenarios,” Harrison said.
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Joshua a. Bikel, Isabella O’Mali and Jennifer McDermot, Associated Press