Light from cars, homes, and street lamps may be keeping bees up at night, according to a new study.
Light from cars, homes, and street lamps may be keeping bees up at night, according to a new study.
Honey bees prefer to sleep in the dark recesses of their hive, but on hot nights they will instead sleep outside. As the planet heats up, nights are warming faster than days, meaning honey bees could soon be spending more evenings outdoors, exposed to light pollution.
For the new study, researchers compared European honey bees sleeping in a darkened area to those sleeping under the continuous glow of artificial light. The lamp-lit bees slept less, and more fitfully, according to the study, published in Scientific Reports.
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