The rusty patched bumblebee is the only native bee in the continental United States protected ... pollen and nectar to feed the cuckoo queen’s offspring. Western bumblebees, the host species, have ...

In many natural history museums, bee specimens are accompanied by little slips of paper that have details about each specimen ...

The cuckoo bee then lays her own eggs and gains control of ... The bees are threatened by declines in their host species, the once-common western bumblebee — which itself has declined by 93% — as well ...