BUMBLEBEES IN UNITED STATES EVOLVING WITH GLOBAL WARMING
@ A team of researchers, through a study, has come across another harm caused by global warming .// The team noted that global warming © and evolution is reshaping bodies of some American bumblebees .//
@ The study showed that the tongues of the two Rocky Mountains species of bumblebees are about one quarter shorter than they used to be 40 years ago .// ©Study authors said the bumblebees are evolving this way because climate change altered the buffet of wildflowers they normally feed on .//
@ According to the researchers, in one of these species, they found that the tongue had been almost half the size of the bee*s body, the equivalent of a human tongue going down to the waist .//
@ Now, when the flowers where the long tongue is required have dwindled, the bees didn*t need that much tongue, said the researchers .//
@ Study lead author Nicole Miller Struttmann © at the State University of New York, Old Westbury said in a statement that keeping long tongues need bees to use more energy, so the bees evolved with shorter tongues that allow them to sample a wider variety of flowers .//