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Bumble Bee Set to Become Officially Endangered

http://www.seeker.com/bumble-bee-set...021384898.html

The rusty patched bumble bee - the workers of which can be identified by a small rust-colored mark on the middle of their second abdominal segment - was historically widespread along the east coast of North America, from Quebec down to Georgia, and across much of the midwest as far west as the Dakotas. However, says USFWS, since the late 1990s, the species' numbers have decreased precipitously, and its range is now a mere 8 percent of its historical extent.