The Bumblebee's Decline Shows How We Get Conservation Wrong
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Recent and future declines of a historically widespread pollinator linked to climate, land cover, and pesticides
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Bumblebee declared endangered - Duluth News Tribune
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Why the honey bee 'apocalypse' is based on a lie
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Scientists Race to Find Out Why the Western Bumblebee Is Disappearing
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Bumblebees Need a Diverse Diet Too
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About Bumble Bees
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Projected decline in European bumblebee populations in the twenty-first century
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Bumble Bee Conservation
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Bumblebees Are Dying Out Because They're Too Fat to Mate - The Atlantic
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The Bumblebee's Decline Shows How We Get Conservation Wrong
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Bumblebees are going extinct in a time of 'climate chaos
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Bumblebees could become extinct within decades because of rising temperatures
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Threatened American bumblebee still seems to be thriving in Nebraska
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Honey bees are not in peril. These bees are. - Vox