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Bumble bees at the top of the world. A continuing passion project...follow me along on a yearly research project to Colorado's high country.

First off.... What is an Atlas? The Bumble Bee Atlas is a collaborative citizen-science project administered by the Xerces Society to track and conserve native bumble bee species across the U.S. The Atlas is a community (aka citizen or participatory) science project aimed at gathering the data needed to track and conserving bumble bees. The information that we have suggests that many species of bumble bees face an uncertain future, but we lack the data needed to implement ef

The Mountain States Bumble Bee Atlas focuses on tracking the bumble bees of Colorado, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. Hiking in Colorado Bumblebee Ecology