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http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/cl...tudy-1.3145014

Bumblebees can't move north to cope with warmer temperatures, and climate change is wiping them out in many areas where they lived several decades ago, a Canadian-led study suggests.

The study looked at where 67 bumblebee species were found in North America and Europe from 1901 to 2010. Since 1975, bee species have been squeezed north by about nine kilometres a year, and are now locally extinct in the southern 300 kilometres of their ranges, said Jeremy Kerr, lead author of a new paper describing the findings.

"The rates of loss are very rapid and are nearly the same across continents," he said at a news conference organized by Science where the paper is being published today.