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U.S. lists first bumble bee species as endangered

Reuters: Science - Posted: January 10th, 2017, 4:29pm UTC

(Reuters) - The rusty patched bumble bee, a prized but vanishing pollinator once familiar to much of North America, was listed on Tuesday as an endangered species, becoming the first wild bee in the continental United States to gain such federal protection.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=bB7wqQjEhus:7GpZ_MEmbrM:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=bB7wqQjEhus:7GpZ_MEmbrM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=bB7wqQjEhus:7GpZ_MEmbrM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=bB7wqQjEhus:7GpZ_MEmbrM:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=bB7wqQjEhus:7GpZ_MEmbrM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/bB7wqQjEhus" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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