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Volunteers are needed to help compile what’s known as Iowa’s Bumble Bee Atlas, an effort to gauge the state’s populations of the vital pollinators. Stephanie Shepherd, a wildlife diversity biologist ...

Iowa’s volunteer community scientists have identified 13 species of bumble bees — including five of the seven priority target ...