By Jaimie Ding (Associated Press)
Since 2021, she’s traveled annually to the Oregon-California border to look for a critically endangered bee last seen in 2006 – Bombus franklini, or Franklin’s bumblebee.
In the arid, cracked desert ground in Southern California, a tiny bee pokes its head out of a hole no larger than the tip of a crayon.
Krystle Hickman crouches over with her specialized camera fitted to capture the minute details of the bee’s…
