Saturday, January 8, 2011

widespread decline in North American bumble bees

Worrisome news about bumblebee declines:

"the relative abundances of four species have declined by up to 96% and that their surveyed geographic ranges have contracted by 23–87%"

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/01/03/1014743108
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Kevin said...

Thanks for the update Bill. Disturbing how much of the natural world has been/will be impacted, and why.

January 31, 2011 at 9:52 AM

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