Counting Bumble Bees in the Peace Garden
Local expert surveys declining bumble bee populations.
Elaine Evans got stung three times on Sunday, but didn't complain a bit. A bumble bee researcher, it's all in a day's work as she visited Lyndale Park to monitor the bee population in and around the Peace Garden. She was drawn to the park after a citizen snapped a photo of a bumble bee there and sent it to The Xerces Society as part of an effort to document declining bee species in the area. "I've been looking at different parks, trying to survey for this particular bee, the rusty-patched bumble bee. And, I hadn't seen in it in any of these other places around the Twin Cities, so I was really excited that someone found them pretty close to home," she said. Evans, a conservation consultant with The Xerces Society and a University of …
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