State bee atlas is a citizen-science project

BEES, BEES, BEES. When you think of bees what do you think of? Honeybees? Bumble bees?

Or maybe yellow jackets? I refer to native bees. The ones you usually don't think about that do

the major pollinating work for us on native plants and cultivated ones, too.

This year, the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) initiated the first-ever Washington Bee Atlas and the second Bee Atlas in t...