While it’s well-known that pollinators are sensitive to threats like climate change and pesticide use, some are especially vulnerable. Among them are many bumble bee species. More than a quarter of North American bumble bees - important pollinators for many native plants, as well as fruits and vegetables that are essential to human diets - are facing some degree of extinction risk.

The iconic, yellow-and-black American bumblebee was once one of the broadest-ranging and recognizable bumble bees in North America, but its numbers have drastically declined over the two decades. It has disappeared from eight states where it was once found in abundance,.

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