The Plight of the Bumblebee

[environmentalist]

The Plight of the Bumblebee

With all the focus recently on the disappearance of the honeybee, there has not been as much discussion about the plight of the bumblebee, one of the hardest workers in the wild world of agriculture, despite this warning issued by the National Academy of Sciences in October of 2006.

That focus may now change as word comes from scientists that at least one bumblebee species from the Northwestern region of the United States, Franklin's Bumblebee, may have gone extinct...

More at this link.



Posted by The Environmentalist