A bumble bee once common across the country has been listed as a species of concern in Canada, and the population in the Maritimes is in a particularly steep decline. The yellow-banded bumble bee ...

ashtoni), and the American bumble bee (B. pensylvanicus). The yellow-banded bumble bee (B. terricola) is not far behind. Many of these bees are struggling elsewhere, too. The rusty patched bumble ...

Over the course of 2024, they successfully pulled off what was once deemed impossible and raised a generation of yellow-banded bumble bees. The Bumble Bee Conservation Lab, which operates under ...

Rusty patched bumble bee -- 100% American bumble bee -- 98% Yellow banded bumble bee -- 71% Yellow bumble bee -- 65% Even though the study focused on Michigan, its findings hold lessons for other ...

the yellow-banded bumble bee (Bombus terricola) nectars joe pye weed. Photo courtesy/copyright K.P. McFarland/Vermont Center for Ecostudies [A]bout half of Vermont’s bumble bee species have ...

In addition to observing bee populations, Kerekes said there will be “a really small number of the yellow banded bumble bees, so we can bring them back to our conservation breeding lab.” ...

One of the more prominent species up for consideration is the Southern Plains bumble bee, a large black-and-yellow bumble bee that inhabits open prairies, meadows and grasslands in the Midwest ...

I never realized how fuzzy a bumble bee is until I got to hold one between my fingertips. It feels like a furry black and yellow bear, buzzing with its tiny body, wriggling with its legs.

A bumble bee once common across the country has been listed as a species of concern in Canada, and the population in the Maritimes is in a particularly steep decline. The yellow-banded bumble bee was ...