A state appeals court ruling allows four species of bumblebee — the Crotch bumblebee, the Franklin bumblebee, the Suckley cuckoo bumblebee, and the Western bumblebee — to be added to the state's endangered species list.
under California's endangered species act.
The Almond Alliance of California had sued to block the addition of the bumblebee species to the endangered list in 2019, arguing they did not qualify. A lower court agreed. Then late last month, a state appeals court , saying that the state's Fish and Game Commission did have the authority to list invertebrates that did not live in water.
Boris Baer of UC Riverside's Center for Integrative Bee Research describes it as a major breakthrough.
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