The race to spot the year’s first bumble bee will begin just after midnight on New Year’s Day, as the Bohart Museum of ...

The 2025 contest was won by Michael Kwong of Sacramento and Kaylen Teves of Vallejo, Monarch Watch volunteers who ...

A team of researchers has uncovered alarming trends in the first range-wide genetic study of an endangered bee species. The study, led by Colorado State University and published in the Journal of ...

Quick Take Argentine ants are a non-native, invasive species in the United States. They compete with bumble bees for prized ...

A photo of a bumblebee found near Kalamazoo, Michigan, was used to confirm the presence of a species rarely seen in recent decades. The photo of the rusty patched bumblebee was reported to iNaturalist ...

Bumblebee guards are actually pretty casual about sterile intruders. They’ll spend a little extra time examining them with their antennae, before allowing them inside. But when fertile intruders show ...

ST. PAUL — Meet Minnesota's new state bee: The rusty patched bumblebee, an endangered species you might be able to see in your own backyard. Once widespread and abundant, the bumblebee's population ...

Wild bees across the west face a growing threat from microscopic parasites. Last week an Oregon researcher visited USU’s ...

When a bumble bee emerges from torpor, it repeatedly rubs its arms over its head and flexes its abdomen. It’s a half-stretch, half-dance move that warms the bee up and out of the state of decreased ...

Some of California’s most crucial insects seem to have gone missing. A new study suggests that populations of once-abundant bumble bee species in California may have experienced serious decline, after ...

(KXAN) – A study by Agricultural Research Service, which is the in-house research agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, showed honey bees revisit the same flower patch more often than bumble ...