“The bumblebee species have declined by 99 percent in New York.”
The population is down nearly 90 percent in two decades and gone from eight states. It still has no protection in any state or under federal law. Fish and Wildlife only started a review after law students and an advocacy group petitioned. The states losing the most bees are the ones spraying the most neonicotinoids. Nobody needs another year-long review to connect those two facts.