FOX 5 Atlanta

California court rules a bumblebee is a fish under environmental law

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A bumblebee is a fish under California law, a California court said in a ruling this week. And thus, the bumblebee should be protected by the state’s endangered species ordinances ...
Beyond Pesticides

Action Today: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Critical Habitat for Endangered Rusty Patched Bumble Bee

The FWS proposal grows out of a species status assessment (SSA) conducted by “15 scientists with expertise in bumble bee biology, habitat management, and stressors (factors negatively affecting the ...
Univeristy of Iowa Daily Iowan

Rare bumblebee species found in Iowa City

A rare bee species’s nest has been spotted in Iowa for the first time since its listing as federally endangered in 2017. The bombus affinis bee nest, more commonly known as the rusty patched bumblebee ...
Center for Biological Diversity

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Advances 1.6 Million Acres of Critical Habitat Protection for Endangered Rusty Patched Bumblebee

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to designate critical habitat for the rusty patched bumblebee under the Endangered Species Act, awarding long overdue protections to ...