Abundance and diversity data outside Detroit split into female worker and male drone categories regressed against site-level impervious surface measured in 2 km buffer zones. Splitting data into female workers and male drones shows the decline of Bombus abundance and diversity in high impervious surface outside Detroit is driven by decreases in female-workers. Male drones show no significant response to impervious surface. (a) Female Bombus abundance (F1,22 = 44.08, p = 1.13× 10−6, R2 = 0.652). (b) Male Bombus abundance (F1,22 = 0.441, p = 0.5137, R2 = −0.0249). (c) Female Bombus diversity (F1,22 = 12.44, p = 0.00189, R2 = 0.3323). (d) Male Bombus diversity (F1,22 = 0.0004, p = 0.9852, R2 = −0.0454). **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001.