KPIX CBS Weekend News March 27, 2017 00:53:00
>> we haven't seen them in the park since 2001. >> not a single one? >> no. >> rusty patched bumblebees, important pollinators for tomatoes, nest underground. over the last 20 years, the species has suffered a 90 percent decline in population and habitat, a range that that once included 28 states and stretched into the upper midwest and northeast. they face many threats. loss of habitat, pesticides, diseases. all of these things can contribute to the overall decline of pollinators. >> bumblebees, honey bees, butterflies - in all, about 40 percent of so-called invertebrate pollinator species no...
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