Bees can be treated like fish under California’s environmental laws, and no, jurists aren’t wacky for upholding that finding, the state Supreme Court said Wednesday.

The high court let stand a much-publicized and, in some corners, much-derided opinion by the Third District Court of Appeal in May that the bumble bee falls within the definition of a fish under the California Environmental Species Act.

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