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The post Why Bees Are Emerging Earlier Than Ever and What It Means for Your Garden<\/a> appeared first on A-Z Animals<\/a>.<\/p>\n Have you noticed far more or far fewer bees in your garden lately, especially with your local wildflowers in full bloom? Events that occur to bees and wasps during the long winter months can drastically alter their populations, according to a major new study from Germany.<\/p>\n Researchers are increasingly focused on what happens before bees and wasps emerge in springtime, during their dormant stretch, when temperature directly shapes their survival and development. What happens to bees and wasps during their dormant periods, and how is climate change affecting them? These are the results of that German study, including what the findings might mean for the future of our pollinators.<\/p>\n A new experiment published on April 13th in Functional Ecology<\/em><\/a> involved scientists at the University of W\u00fcrzburg raising nearly 15,000 hibernating bees and wasps from over 160 Bavarian locations under controlled spring temperature scenarios. They tracked how warming weather changes the timing of insect emergence and the condition the insects are in when they do.<\/p>\nNew Research Results for Hibernating Bees and Wasps<\/h2>\n