Delving deeper: Questioning the decline of long-tongued bumble bees, long-tubed flowers and their mutualisms with climate change
by de Keyzer et al.
An alpine bumble bee on a daisy
Media coverage and
science outreach have brought research on bee declines and climate change to
the masses. Given the increased attention to these fields and associated policy
implications, we feel it is crucial that the best available science is
accurately represented. We critique a recent paper by Miller-Struttmann et al.
(2015) that finds striking evidence of tongue length shortening in two North
American alpine bumble bee species.
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