https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/956147
*The result of their collection efforts are documented
<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.8505> in the
journal Ecology and Evolution. In total, the team collected 17 types of
bumble bees representing only 68% of the species historically known to
inhabit the state.*
*One of the missing species, the Western bumble bee is an important
pollinator of wild plants and crops. It used to be one of the most common
bumble bees in California. *
*“We didn’t find it even once,” Woodard said. “If it was okay, we should
have seen it,” she said.*
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