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If you’ve hiked through a meadow in bloom in Europe or North America, you’ve probably heard the buzz and seen the lazy meanderings of bumble bees from flower to flower. Yet what was once a common ...

Bumblebee guards are actually pretty casual about sterile intruders. They’ll spend a little extra time examining them with ...

The American Bumble Bee, Bombus pensylvanicus, is one of the most common bumble bee species found on the Front Range and is one of the 24 species found in Colorado 1. This species is found only in the ...

In January, a coalition of scientists from various academic and conservation organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) asking the agency to take action on an unexpected ...

Rusty patched bumble bees lost 87% of their population over the last couple of decades nationwide — their local populations here in Evanston declined as well. Scientists and residents in the greater ...

MILWAUKEE - If you go for a walk from mid-April through May in an old Wisconsin forest, odds are you may have noticed diverse beds of flowers less than a foot high. These are spring ephemerals – short ...

Researchers have figured out which plant species bumble bees prefer to include in their diets, providing advice to those wishing to help with bee conservation efforts. During the summer months of 2015 ...