Four species of bumble bees are now fish under California law. Classifying these bees as fish is not a conspiracy to fundamentally alter basic scientific fact. It’s a legal maneuver to protect some potentially endangered insects.
Not all bees in California are considered fish, just four species including the Crotch’s bumble bee, Franklin’s bumble bee, Suckley cuckoo bumble bee and the Western bumble bee. Those species are now eligible for protection as endangered or threatened “fish” after a California Appeals Court reversed a lower court’s ruling.
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