Honey bee products and services ... wildlife experts believe the rusty patched bumblebee has the highest potential of spreading through southern Wisconsin, eastern Minnesota and Iowa, northern ...

Scientists at UBC are raising concern about the number of common eastern bumble bees—an introduced species ... agricultural industries that benefit quite a bit from wild bumble bee pollination. It’s ...

until an intestinal disease in 1999 wiped the bees out and producers started using the common eastern bumble bee, Bombus impatiens, instead, van Westendorp says. During that decade it’s unclear ...

researchers who discovered a previously unknown and unique fact about a species of bee while working on an unrelated study: Queens of the common eastern bumblebee can survive while submerged for ...

A common eastern bumblebee ... waste like we do, so bumblebee poo is a thin slurry that’s often bright yellow from undigested pollen.) “It turned out that bee poop naturally fluoresces ...

I was photographing insects on a September morning when I spotted this small bee. It looked a lot like a common eastern bumblebee, but it was smaller than a bumblebee and larger than a sweat bee.