That bee is protected by state law, and it's one of the many species under survey for the California Bumble Bee Atlas. The Atlas is a sort of census for the state's bumble bees, and Richardson ...

that bumble bees are becoming rarer, that many species are in trouble,” says Leif Richardson with the Xerces Society, the conservation nonprofit that created the California Bumble Bee Atlas project, ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang searches coastal California ... bumblebee. CHANG: That's... A queen of the very species that we were looking for. And she was at least two to three times bigger than any other ...

A ruling released May 31 by California’s Third District Court of Appeals ruled bees ... listed species. In 2018, several public interest groups petitioned to list four species of bumblebee ...

A ruling released May 31 by California’s Third District Court of Appeals ruled bees can legally be ... purchase or sale of listed species. In 2018, several public interest groups petitioned to list ...