The the carder bee, seen here gathering pollen on an alpine silver thistle in the Austrian Alps, is one species of bumblebee that’s moving north in a warming climate. Credit: Bob Berwyn/InsideClimate News Type ” bumblebees ” into Google and one of the first results is a University of Minnesota webpage describing how the furry, flying pollinators have “special adaptations for colder weather including their long, thick hair, and are more commonly found in colder climates.” That’s a good clue that they will face challenges in a warming world, and new research by scientists at the University of Ottawa suggests that extreme heat waves have already driven some local North American and European bumblebee populations to the edge of extinction. Measurements of bumblebee species over time “provide evidence of rapid and widespread declines across Europe and North America,” the authors of the study wrote. More frequent extreme heat waves […]