This species can recover from its devastating decline only if we use every tool at our disposal to protect the bee and its habitat.” The rusty patched bumblebee was once common in the Midwest and the ...

Many of the more than 400 species of native bees are also threatened, such as the rusty patch bumble bee. Susan Carpenter, the native plant garden curator at UW-Madison's arboretum, said she also ...

Habitat loss largely due to agricultural intensification and urbanization, heavy use of pesticides, and disease have eliminated this fuzzy bee, with a rusty patch on its back, from more than 80 ...