Well, I keep learning through the Master Gardener Volunteer program how important bees are to our crops and gardens. So, I am ...

The rusty patched bumble bee gets its name for a crescent-shaped, reddish patch on its abdomen. It is one of 4,000 native bee species in North America, Hatfield said. It is an important pollinator ...

TRAVERSE CITY (AP) - The rusty patched bumblebee on Tuesday became ... possible reasons for the decline of the bee, named for the rusty reddish patch on the backs of workers and males.

Just this year the Rusty Patch Bumble Bee was named Minnesota's state bee, but it's critically endangered. Sven Sundgaard talked with Jill Utrup of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service at the ...

Named after the reddish patch on its back ... "Having this high-quality genome will support the identification of genetic differences between rusty-patched bumble bee populations that appear to be ...

The rusty patched bumblebee, named for the reddish-brown smudge on the backs of male and worker bees of the species ... The rusty patch became the first bumblebee in the United States to be ...

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 ...

The staff member made a post on iNaturalist, an online platform for crowdsourcing species identification ... second has a patch of "rusty hairs" on the front. Just like bumble bees, the rusty ...

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 ...