Bumble bees are disappearing due to pesticides and habitat loss. You can make a difference in your own backyard for these vital, native pollinators.
Plight of the Bumble Bee: Conserving Native Pollinators
Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flowers
How to Protect Our Disappearing Bumble Bees - Scientific American Blog Network
Plight of the Bumblebee
UC Irvine students step up to help save the state's wild bees – Orange County Register
Honeybees? It's Our Native Bees That Need the Buzz
Rusty Patched Bumble Bee: The First Bee in the Continental U.S. to be Protected Under the Endangered Species Act
Honeybees, Bumblebees and the Case of the Collapsing Hive
Honeybees? It's Our Native Bees That Need the Buzz
Oak Spring Garden Foundation - Four At-Risk North American Bumble Bee Species