Heatwaves are impairing the ability of bumble bees to detect floral scents, posing a serious threat to their role as pollinators, according to a new study. The research shows that exposure to extreme ...

Bumblebees might lose their sense of smell during heatwaves, according to a laboratory simulation 1. Sabine Nooten and her colleagues at the University of Würzburg in Germany subjected a total of 143 ...

A buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris), one of the species found in a recent study to have a diminished sense of smell after exposure to heat. Georgette Douwma via Getty Images Heat could be ...

Heat waves don’t just make bumblebees hot. The high temperatures also seem to drastically reduce their sense of smell — with possible negative effects on the survival of colonies. As climate change is ...

The common carder bee (Bombus pascuorum) feeding on the large-flowered hemp-nettle (Galeopsis speciosa) in the Austrian Alps. If it gets too hot, the insects can hardly detect the scents of the ...

Le temperature estreme potrebbero limitare la capacità degli insetti impollinatori di nutrirsi. Una ricerca pubblicata su Proceedings of the Royal Society B ha esposto a temperature di 40 gradi per ...