{"id":129120,"date":"2024-09-06T15:01:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T15:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/06\/bumblebees-lose-most-of-their-sense-of-smell-after-heat-waves\/"},"modified":"2024-09-06T15:01:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T15:01:12","slug":"bumblebees-lose-most-of-their-sense-of-smell-after-heat-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/06\/bumblebees-lose-most-of-their-sense-of-smell-after-heat-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumblebees lose most of their sense of smell after heat waves"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heat waves don\u2019t just make bumblebees hot. The high temperatures also seem to drastically reduce their sense of smell \u2014 with possible negative effects on the survival of colonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For bumblebees, the ability to smell flowers is a matter of life or death. Olfactory, along with visual, cues lead them to the best flowers<\/a>, which they in turn use as a food source (SN: 4\/9\/24<\/em>). But exposure to simulated heat waves reduced the ability of bumblebee antennae to detect flower scents by up to 80 percent<\/a>, insect ecologist Sabine Nooten and colleagues report in the August Proceedings of the Royal Society B<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n