image: This buff-tailed bumblebee in Nottingham is visiting catmint flowers, sipping nectar and moving pollen from one plant to another. Bees perform this ecosystem service efficiently. Rapid climate change is linked to widespread losses in this evolutionarily unique group of vital pollinators. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 10, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.T. Kerr at University of Ottawa in Ottawa, ON, Canada, and colleagues was titled, 'Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents.' view more
Credit: [Credit: Photo by Jeremy T. Kerr]