Heat waves impair bumblebees' ability to detect floral scents, study finds
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Heat waves impair bumblebees' ability to detect floral scents, study finds

Climate change is affecting ecosystems in many different ways. One of its consequences is increasingly longer and more intense periods of heat, which affect essential natural processes—such as pollination. A team of researchers from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) has now investigated in more detail how heat affects one particular player in these processes—the bumblebee.