How does climate change affect bees?

Let me count the ways...

In Custer County, South Dakota, erosion has cut away the face of a west-facing sandy cliff at one of our partner bison ranches, exposing a cross-section of hundreds (maybe thousands) of vertical nest tunnels built by ground-nesting sweat bees — most likely the brown-winged striped sweat bee (Agapostemon splendens). Cavity-nesting leafcutter bees, perhap…