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Irwin to Study Bee Abundance With Support From Kriz Endowment

Date: February 14, 2024
North CarolinaColorado RockiesColoradoUniversity of ColoradoRocky Mountain Biological LaboratoryBombusApis melliferaApoidea

Summary

News from NC State University In the Colorado Rockies, climate warming is melting the snow earlier and earlier. With an earlier snowmelt comes earlier spring blooms and, as Rebecca Irwin in the Department of Applied Ecology has found, so too comes an earlier emergence of bees. Irwin has spent the p