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vertical-align: baseline;">Dramatic decline found in Western
bumblebee populations</h1>
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Monday, July 27, 2020</time></section>
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baseline;">A federal review of existing data unveils an
alarming trend for the Western bumblebee population, which has
seen its numbers dwindle by as much as 93% in the last two
decades.</p>
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baseline;">The find by the U.S. Geological Survey will help
inform a species status assessment to begin this fall by the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which may ultimately add the
insect to its endangered species list.</p>
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baseline;">Tabitha Graves, senior author of the study and a
research ecologist with the survey, said the trend with the
western bumblebee documented between 1998 and 2018 is
troubling because of their important role as pollinators.</p>
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baseline;">"They contribute a lot of money in terms of
pollination services for our food crops," she said. "Seventy
to 80% of flowering plants and crops are pollinated by animals
overall. Pollination contributes to $20 billion in agriculture
in the United States."</p>
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baseline;">Bumblebees also pollinate plants in the wild, such
as huckleberries, which are a staple food source for bears.</p>
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baseline;">There are multiple factors at play that are
contributing to the demise of the bumblebee, including
pesticides, habitat fragmentation, a warming climate and
pathogens, researchers say.</p>
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baseline;">"People started to notice these declines in the
1990s. This bumblebee that was once very widespread and common
is something that people started to see less frequently," said
Diana Cox-Foster, research leader and location coordinator at
the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Pollinating Insects
Research Unit at Utah State University.</p>
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baseline;">"There are localized populations where it is still
happy and healthy, but there have been declines in large parts
of its previous distributions. ... Asking why these declines
are happening is very important."</p>
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baseline;">There are concerns that other species of bumblebees
used in commercial pollination are spreading pathogens to the
western bumblebee, Cox-Foster added.</p>
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baseline;">"The role of pests and pathogens is of particular
concern," she said. "There is also climate change and how that
has affected the distribution of the bee. Agrichemicals are
also part of the stress issue."</p>
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baseline;">Graves said the research doesn't point to one
conclusive cause for the decline, which will be the focus of
another research effort to better quantify particular threats.</p>
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baseline;">"We have a sample design and have identified where
we have gaps in knowledge," Graves said. "There are a lot of
places in western North America where we have not done
sampling for bumblebees for a long time. We need to support
this kind of monitoring and research."</p>
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baseline;">To that end, residents can get in on the action by
downloading an app at bumblebeewatch.org and documenting what
bumblebees they may come across. There have been an estimated
14,000 submissions from all 49 states where bumblebees occur.</p>
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outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Cox-Foster also added that people can plant
bee-friendly vegetation to encourage their presence around
homes.</p>
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border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
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outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">"Planting for bumblebees, or all bees, is really
important," she said. "One of the major issues facing
pollinators is lack of floral resources." — <em
style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
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border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
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border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
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border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right:
0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style:
none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left:
0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Amy Joi O'Donoghue,</em> Deseret News<em
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border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right:
0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style:
none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left:
0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">, via Associated Press</em></p>
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