Non-honey bees

I’m busy identifying bees collected during my recent field trip. I just found a male Bombus semenoviellus among them. It’s an interesting species – one of a few European species colonizing recently new areas, and at the same time being at the highest risk of suffering under climate change in the future. Do these two things contradict each other? Not really. In the future, B. semenoviellus will be losing the climatically suitable areas faster than gaining it in other places.

If you feel too optimistic today, feel free to check out the atlas of climatic risk for European bumblebees. Spoiler: climate change is very bad news for most of them.