MILWAUKEE - If you go for a walk from mid-April through May in an old Wisconsin forest, odds are you may have noticed diverse beds of flowers less than a foot high. These are spring ephemerals – short ...
(This story was updated to correct how often the rusty patched bumble bee has been seen. It's been seen in seven states over 10 years.) The rusty patched bumble bee had only been seen in seven states ...
MANKATO — Bumble bees are in decline in Minnesota, but that doesn’t stop people from studying them. A study finds over half of U.S. bee colonies have vanished, and 64% of Minnesota’s hives have ...
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 ...
KALAMAZOO, MI – Scientists have discovered an extremely rare bumble bee species in Michigan for the first time in more than 25 years. Ecologists believed for years that the rusty-patched bumble bee ...