From Pacific Standard: "In a positive move for bees, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service has added seven species of yellow-faced bees in Hawaii to the endangered species list. These are the ...

The bee was once found in roughly half of the U.S. Now, rare sightings have been limited to about a dozen states.

Seven types of bees once found in abundance in Hawaii but now facing extinction on Friday became the first bees to be added to the federal list of endangered and threatened species, according to U.S.

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(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 ...

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Bees are now legally considered fish in California under the state’s endangered species law, an appeals court in Sacramento ruled Tuesday. The 1970 act explicitly protected “fish,” which were ...

On Monday, May 31, a court ruled that bees can piggyback off the technical definition of fish, which now qualifies them to be listed under the California Endangered Species Act. This ruling reversed a ...

There’s a lot of headlines about a California court declaring bees to be fish. And yes, that really did happen. But not because anyone believes bees are actually fish (though there is a species called ...

Community science volunteers—laypeople with an interest in bees and conservation—significantly contribute to the scientific knowledge of native bumble bees across Canada and the United States, finds a ...