APPANOOSE COUNTY, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - Volunteers across Iowa conducted nearly 500 bumble bee atlas surveys in 2025, which was more than three times the number of surveys conducted the year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bumble bee clings to an alfalfa leaf. (Photo by Krista Lundgren/USFWS) TOPEKA — Kansas needs help documenting bumble bees to ...

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) published its final rule designating critical habitat for the endangered rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) on June 1, 2026. The rule designates more ...

Rusty patched bumble bees lost 87% of their population over the last couple of decades nationwide — their local populations here in Evanston declined as well. Scientists and residents in the greater ...

Citizen-scientists gathered in a wildflower meadow in the Washington Cascades in July to help the western bumblebee keep buzzing through the air. Nearly a mile high in the Wenatchee Mountains, the ...

Volunteers are needed to help compile what’s known as Iowa’s Bumble Bee Atlas, an effort to gauge the state’s populations of the vital pollinators. Stephanie Shepherd, a wildlife diversity biologist ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners! Thank goodness for the recent rains we have received. Many areas in the Valley are still very dry. Many livestock farmers are feeding hay but pastures will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The tricolor bumble bee, pictured, is one of 13 species identified by volunteers in the Iowa Bumble Bee Atlas. (Photo by Megan ...

Xerces Society biologist Molly Martin holds a western bumblebee, with its distinctive white tail, in a glass vial in Washington's Wenatchee Mountains on July 19, 2025. One of the Northwest’s most ...

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