How you can help count and conserve native bees

Honeybees and their problems get the most attention, but scientists are using tactics learned from bird conservation to protect American bees.
By Michele C. Hollow | The New York Times |

NEW YORK TIMES - In the last 20 years, the rusty patched bumblebee population declined by 87 percent because of habitat loss, use of pesticides and disease. This fuzzy bee, native to the continental United States, gets its name from the rusty patch on its back.

“While regional studies have tracked the decline of native bees,” said S. Hollis Woodard, an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside, “there hasn’t been a coordinated nationwide effort to monitor these pollinators.”

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