The Group seeks to list endangered for Franklin's Bumblebee

Jeff Barnard, associated PressGRANTS PASS, Oregon — protection lodged a petition Wednesday add Bumblebee from Southern Oregon and Northern California to the list of threatened species.Society for invertebrate conservation and Robbin Thorp, entomologist at the University of California at Davis, formally petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the insect — called Bombus Franklin — under the endangered species Act. Scott Hoffman Black, Executive Director of the Xerces society in Portland, Oregonsaid petition is part of efforts to reverse this decline in bumblebees and other native bees in the world due to Habitat loss, pesticides and diseases of the transition from commercial greenhouses.The group is preparing a petition to protect other species of Bumblebee. Bee Franklin was elected to This petition because the documentation of its decline is more detailed than for other species. THORP found 94 Franklin bumblebees in 1994, but he has not found any since 2006. Farmers often hire Honeybee pollinate crops, farmers, but uli was decimated by the killer of mysterious Honeybee known as colony collapse disorder.Some farmers are turning to bumblebees to pollinate, particularly for hothouse crops such as tomatoes, peppers and strawberries and crops such as berries, cranberries, raspberries, squash or melon. Bumblebees pollinate approximately 15% of all crops grown in the nation, it is worth 3 billion dollars. "Decrease in Franklin's Bumblebee should serve as an alarm clock that we can begin to lose important pollinators, "Black said. "We hope that will remind us to Franklin's Bumblebee pollinators in the u.s. towards extinction."While many native pollinators have seen decreases related to loss of Habitat, and pesticides, Franklin's Bumblebee and some related species have suffered deep and sudden that Thorp has theorized the theory may be associated with fungi, which has been accidentally transported from bumblebees imported from Europe for commercial use.The work of researchers at the University of Illinois to See if mushrooms known as nosema bombus due to decrease in a number of related bumblebees, Bombus Western once common, Bumblebee and banded patch rusty yellow Bumblebee in the Northeast. Earlier this year, the Xerces society and other conservation groups urged Federal authorities and scientists begin governing shipments of agricultural commercially domesticated bumblebees to protect wild bumblebees from disease threatening their survival.Report of the National Academy of Sciences 2007 blamed the decline of pollinators around the world on a combination of Habitat loss, pesticides, pollution and diseases passing from greenhouses using commercial bumblebees.Copyright 2010 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY Community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally and keep your language decent. Use the "report abuse" button to make the difference. Learn more.