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 ...

A new study from the University of California, Riverside has revealed that bumbkle bee queens take intentional breaks from ...

Some queens don't rule nonstop. A new study from the University of California, Riverside shows that even bumble bee queens, ...

New research shows bumble bee queens pause egg-laying early in colony formation to manage energy and time reproduction.

Volunteers are needed to help compile what’s known as Iowa’s Bumble Bee Atlas, an effort to gauge the state’s populations of ...

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 ...

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 ...

This task was too complex for individual bees to learn on their own. Observing trained demonstrator bees performing the first unrewarded step was crucial for successful social learning.