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January 21, 2017 – The Plight of the Bumble Bee

January 20, 2017May 23, 2017 Mike Nowak Endangered Species Act, environment, extinction, gardening, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, pollinators, rusty patched bumble bee, The Mike Nowak Show, Xerces Society

Mike and Peggy talk to two experts–Allen Lawrance from Chicago’s Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and Rich Hatfield from the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation–about the recent decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.