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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is opening a 60-day public comment period on a proposed rule to list Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. This determination ...
New research shows bumble bee queens pause egg-laying early in colony formation to manage energy and time reproduction.
Some queens don't rule nonstop. A new study from the University of California, Riverside shows that even bumble bee queens, ...
Volunteers are needed to help compile what’s known as Iowa’s Bumble Bee Atlas, an effort to gauge the state’s populations of ...
A historic estate is being transformed into a sanctuary for some of the UK’s most threatened bumblebees. Tredegar House in Newport is part of a new project by National Trust Cymru and the Bumblebee ...
Native bees come in a variety of sizes - some are big, some are small, and some are… even smaller! Enjoy these two vignettes ...
This is the kind of fence renovation no one signed up for, but the carpenter bee sure did! Darla shared this wild backyard clip where a chunky little buzzball stole the spotlight. ''We were looking at ...
Get ready to buzz with laughter, because these bee puns are the sweetest Did you know that bee puns are good for your health? It’s true: They give you a dose of vitamin Bee! OK, we’re pollen ...
“There are natural things out there that bees are interacting with that can be beneficial for them,” Giacomini says. And by making changes to the landscape, scientists hope we can help give ...
These charismatic, rabbit-size rodents live on North America's prairies and open grasslands in only a fraction of their former numbers. Prairie dogs live in underground burrows, extensive warrens ...