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Climate Change Disrupts Bees Pollination of Flowers
2014-11-08 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Sexual deceit, pressed flowers and Victorian bee collectors are combined in new scientific research which demonstrates for the first time that climate change threatens flower pollination, which underpins much of the world's food production. The early spider orchid and miner bee, that depend on each other for reproduction, have become increasingly out of sync as spring temperatures rise, research has shown. The work used museum records stretching back to 1848 to show that the early spider orchid...
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