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 ...

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 ...

This community science project, run by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and supported by the Bureau of Land ...

Native bees come in a variety of sizes - some are big, some are small, and some are… even smaller! Enjoy these two vignettes ...

Mason Lee, senior project coordinator of the Biodiversity Institute, holds up a bumble bee in a tube during last year’s Bumble Bee Atlas training. This year’s training is scheduled Sunday, June 1, ...

For community scientists interested in helping map data about bumble bees, the University of Wyoming’s Biodiversity Institute is sponsoring a Mountain States Bumble Bee Atlas training for 1-4 p ...

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 ...

Researchers have produced what is probably the most comprehensive list of bee species in Connecticut, noting 388 of them so ...

He calls himself Mr. Bloom, and he has made it his mission to plant native wildflowers in the forgotten corners of the city, ...

Dec. 21, 2020 — The yield and quality of many crops benefit from pollination, but it isn't just honey bees that do this work: bumble bees also have a role. A team has used innovative molecular ...