For World Bee Day, take a moment to appreciate native bees Honeybees get most of our attention, but there are thousands of species of wild bee species—and many are disappearing. In South Dakota’s Badlands National Park, a brown-belted bumblebee visits a sunflower to collect pollen. Native to much of the United States, this species is a generalist and pollinates a range of different flowers. ByPriyanka Runwal Email Clay Bolt first laid eyes on a rusty patched bumblebee impaled on a pin in an insect collection at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2014. Brown and dull yellow with a faded rust-colored patch on its abdomen, the fuzzy, dime-sized relic got him thinking about the species’ precarious status in the wild.