{"id":5646,"date":"2016-01-05T10:38:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T15:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5646"},"modified":"2016-01-05T10:38:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T15:38:53","slug":"new-map-reveals-declines-in-wild-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/01\/new-map-reveals-declines-in-wild-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"New map reveals declines in wild bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The importance of bees in pollinating crops has been in the news in recent years because of declining populations of wild and domestic bees and other pollinators due to unidentified causes which may include both natural and manmade changes to their ecosystems, including climate. \u00a0The University of Vermont released a map in December\u00a0which shows the areas in which wild bee populations are threatened by decline. \u00a0While domesticated honey bees can take over some of the pollinating activities of wild bees, they are also threatened.<\/p>\n<p>The Southeast is less threatened than some other areas of the country. \u00a0The largest impacts are in the peninsula of Florida, as seen in the map below.<\/p>\n<p>You can read an article about this latest research at <em>Ars Technica<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2015\/12\/maps-reveal-us-hotspots-where-crops-could-fail-in-the-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5648\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5648\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/Bee-Map-2-640x320.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5648\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5648\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/Bee-Map-2-640x320-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Source: University of Vermont via Ars Technica\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/Bee-Map-2-640x320-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/Bee-Map-2-640x320-276x138.jpg 276w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/Bee-Map-2-640x320.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: University of Vermont via Ars Technica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The importance of bees in pollinating crops has been in the news in recent years because of declining populations of wild and domestic bees and other pollinators due to unidentified causes which may include both natural and manmade changes to their ecosystems, including climate. \u00a0The University of Vermont released a map in December\u00a0which shows the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5649,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646\/revisions\/5649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}