Summary: <p>Allen Lawrance from Chicago’s <a href="http://www.naturemuseum.org/">Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum</a> and Rich Hatfield from the <a href="http://www.xerces.org/">Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation</a> discuss the recent decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. </p>
