What will happen to pollinators as the climate changes?

Twice a day, Lorne Covington walks his dogs around his 20 acres in Skaneateles, New York. 

Amber Kleinman observed hot, dry, windy weather this
summer in Paonia, Colorado. ‘Though there have been
 plenty of flowers, I have been surprised by how little
honey is being stored in the beehives,’ she said.

Covington’s lot is mostly wooded, with a four-acre wildflower meadow. Typically in July, he sees wasps, carpenter bees, and bumble bees buzzing around the flowers. This summer, the buzzing was for all practical purposes non-existent.

“We had a bumper crop of wildflowers this year,” Covington said. “But unlike previous years, there were just no bees.”

Covington isn’t alone in observing a lack of pollinators this summer. Sue Stroud reported fewer bees in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia. Judy Donnelly saw fewer bumble bees and wasps in Windham, Connecticut. And in Paonia, Colorado, Amber Kleinmann’s honey bees have been producing less honey than usual.

Read the story from Yale Climate Connections by Samatha Harrington - “What will happen to pollinators as the climate changes?”