The plight of bumblebees dire

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: October 9, 2007| Author: Jeff Barnard Associated Press | Copyright information

GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- Looking high and low, Robbin Thorp can no longer find a species of bumblebee that just five years ago was plentiful in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon.

Thorp, an emeritus professor of entomology from the University of California at Davis, found one solitary worker last year along a remote mountain trail in the Siskiyou Mountains but hasn't been able to locate any this year.

He fears that the species -- Franklin's bumblebee -- has gone extinct ...

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