A Xylocopa cantabrita male weighing 194 milligrams. People might weigh as a lot as double that 30 years in the past
Carlos Herrera/Spanish Nationwide Analysis Council
A protracted-running examine of untamed bees in Spain has discovered the bugs have been shedding pounds for the final three a long time, almost certainly attributable to world warming.
Since 1990, Carlos Herrera on the Spanish Nationwide Analysis Council and his colleagues have hand-netted over 1700 particular person bees belonging to 137 species in Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas Pure Park, the biggest protected wilderness space in Spain.
Weighing them within the lab, the …
