MAIL ONLINE: Droughts mean fewer flowers for bees

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Dr Ellen Fry, from the University of Manchester, said: “Previous studies of the impacts of drought on flowers and bees have looked at individual species, often in the laboratory, but we used an experiment with rain shelters to examine the effects on real communities of plant species living in chalk grassland.

“The level of drought that we looked at was calculated to be a rare event, but with climate change such droughts are expected to become much more common.”