A rare North American bumble bee may have been on a path toward extinction long before modern human impacts, suggesting that its long-term genetic vulnerability made it especially fragile and less ...

Every bumble bee colony has a queen, but a new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests the process of determining which baby bee reigns supreme may be less monarchal than the royal title ...

The post Dead Bumblebees Are Piling up This Summer — Here's the Reason appeared first on A-Z Animals. With summer in full swing, insects are emerging. This includes bumblebees, which work to grow ...

In the first long-term, community-level field study of wild bumble bee nutrition, a team of ecologists led by Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden discovered that wild bees aren't ...

Being a single mother of 20 is no joke, especially if the survival of a whole species depends on it. A queen bumblebee faces this very challenge when she lays her first eggs in the spring: She is ...

MANKATO — Bumble bees are in decline in Minnesota, but that doesn’t stop people from studying them. A study finds over half of U.S. bee colonies have vanished, and 64% of Minnesota’s hives have ...

She spent 30 hours helping one tiny bee! Scarlet found this exhausted bumblebee on the floor of her barn and refused to give up on her. At The Dodo, we're always moved by the lengths people will go to ...