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A project to document an endangered bee species needs the help of citizen scientists.  The is asking people to take pictures of bumble bees around the state, then upload the photo and say where it was taken.  Scientists are looking for the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee, which the US Fish and Wildlife Service recently listed as an endangered species. 

Dr. Randy Mitchell is a biology professor with the University of Akron.  He says it鈥檚 unclear if the once populous bumble bee still exists in Ohio and if it鈥檚 possible to save them.

鈥淥nce we figure out which bees are where, we can then try to figure out whether there鈥檚 something special about those areas that鈥檚 helping them to survive and whether we can help that to happen in other places.鈥� says Mitchell, who appeared on the  He says the bumble bees are tame and will leave people alone so long as they鈥檙e not near their colony. 

Scientists believe a combination of habitat loss, parasites, pesticides, and climate change caused the Rusty Patched bumble bee population to decline.