Despite finally seeing the rusty patch bumble bee, students say their plans for the prairie just keep getting bigger. “There’s still projects we want to do this year,” Sam said.

On top of climate change and pesticides, a sub genus of bumble bees that included the rusty patch bumble bee, was especially ... out how to grow bumble bees in boxes and then ship them out to ...

An Iowa City resident discovered the first rusty patch bumble bee nest in the state since the species was listed as endangered in 2017. In August, Michelle Wiegand, an education specialist at ...

Each sample she collects from rusty patched bumblebees is destined for a lab in Utah to help researchers uncover the genetic secrets critical to the bee ... patch became the first bumblebee ...

(This story was updated to correct how often the rusty patched bumble bee has been seen ... but the second has a patch of "rusty hairs" on the front. Just like bumble bees, the rusty patched ...

Two years ago, the first documented sighting of the federally endangered rusty patched bumblebee in ... adjusts its restoration plans with input from plant, bird and bee monitoring, she said.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intends to designate 1.6 million acres of critical habitat for the rusty patched bumble bee in six states ... can comment on the plan until Jan. 27.