Decades ago, the Bombus affinis species of the bumble bee could be seen thriving across the Eastern and Midwest regions of ...

WASHINGTON—Conservation groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for refusing to designate critical habitat for the highly endangered rusty patched bumblebee. Despite the bee’s ...

File Photo: A rusty patched bumble bee which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ... more than a quarter of which face a risk of extinction. Government scientists point to a certain class of pesticides ...

The rusty-patched bumblebee is now officially on the endangered species list. It's the first bee from the continental US to be be listed for federal protection under the Endangered Species Act ...