Ok I suppose so. Senior Lecturer Uni of Hull. Late adopter.
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When they emerged the next spring, many months later, bees’ sperm counts had dropped by a third, and their sperm were half as active (and there were similar declines in egg production by females) compared to bees not receiving the heatwave.
This shows that, while not outright killing bees, real-world climate change is right now having non-obvious but profound effects on their populations (and thus their services to us).
The paper is on the effect of heat waves on solitary bee fertility, which Jamie found are quite surprisingly severe. He subjected mason bees at a late larval stage to a mild heatwave, recreated in the lab, designed to simulate the recent, very real heat wave in summer 2024.
Oops! Corrigendum: I meant to say we replicated the UK heatwave of July 2022, not 2024.
Our Conversation article here about our new paper on heatwaves and bee fertility theconversation.com/heatwaves-ar...
Read the journal article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Happy lab! Finalist undergraduates carrying out their independently designed experiments on various invertebrates - some great ideas this year! #invertzoohull #researchledteaching
🚨 New bee paper in press, with @jamiesmithbio.bsky.social at Hull and @ejduncan.bsky.social at Leeds! Delighted to have this accepted - huge congrats to Jamie on the first paper out of his PhD 🥳 🎉
Read the paper in online early view form, here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Really excited to see this paper published — congratulations @jamiesmithbio.bsky.social and @jdjgilbert.bsky.social! It’s been a pleasure to contribute to such a fantastic project.
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Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of heatwaves, which can have severe consequences for insect physiology, development, and repr…
Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of heatwaves, which can have severe consequences for insect physiology, development, and repr…
