That's normal. Bumble bees are burly — even brawny. But, with the exception of next year's queens, they are annuals. They end their lives with winter. What's not normal: The last living rusty-patch ...

On top of climate change and pesticides, a sub genus of bumble bees that included the rusty patch bumble bee, was especially susceptible to a certain fungal pathogen that was known to have ...

SO SPEAK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT RUSTY RIGHT HERE. SO RUSTY IS OUR MASCOT AND OUR GOOD FRIEND HERE. AND HE REPRESENTS THE RUSTY PATCH BUMBLEBEE ... A NATIVE BEE NEST. WE CAN THEN GO TO SOME OF OUR ...

When FWS announced the endangered species classification for the rusty patched bumble bee, it wrote: “Before it was declared endangered in 2017, the rusty patched bumble bee experienced a widespread ...

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, including Minnesota. The rusty patched bumble bee ...

A rare bee species’s nest has been spotted in ... extract DNA from the nest and examine two dead queens. The rusty patched bumblebee is aptly named for the distinctive reddish brown rusty patch ...

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 Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is enlisting volunteers to join the Bumble Bee Brigade. The brigade helps the DNR track the bumble bee population in Wisconsin. The species that the ...

A lesser-known consequence of imported bees is the risk of pathogen spillovers, when diseases or parasites move from their original hosts to new species. The rusty-patch bumblebee, for example ...

The rusty-patched bumblebee was the first bee species to be federally listed as endangered in 2017 through the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Its numbers dropped rapidly starting in the late 1990s ...