Ecologists in Australia flipped through thousands of photos taken on trail cameras at a national park. They were looking for photos of an at-risk mouse species — but noticed several images of a fluffy ...

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

New data indicates 60 bee species and morpho-species can be found on Vancouver Island farms, including the threatened Western bumble bee and the non-native Eastern bumble bee ... The second most ...

Her research (see here, here, here, here, here, and here) identifies important gaps overlooked in current assessments and regulations for bee species, including the common eastern bumble bee (Bombus ...

The rusty patched bumble bee was named Minnesota state bee in 2019. Once common across large portions of eastern states and the upper Midwest, populations declined dramatically due to habitat loss ...

Nigel Raine and Sabrina Rondeau have found that bumblebee queens are more likely to hibernate in soil contaminated with pesticides than in clean soil – for reasons they still don’t quite understand.

In a paper published last month in the journal Science of The Total Environment, researchers described an experiment that gave common eastern bumblebee ... Hollis Woodard, a bee biologist at ...

Recent research from UBC’s Plant-Pollinator and Global Change (PPGC) Lab revealed notable decreases in the local western bumble bee population, with a non-native species dominating the area. The ...

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.

So, they ran a new experiment. Taking 143 common eastern bumblebee queens, researchers put every bee in its own castle—or, plastic tube—filled with topsoil. The tubes stayed in the fridge for ...