Bumble bees cling to goldenrod blooms on a frosty fall morning. The goldenrod is still in bloom, and one small cluster of flowers had five little bumblebees hanging, motionless, from the undersides of ...

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 ...

A concerned individual discovered a frail bumblebee unable to fly. Taking action, she carefully transferred the insect to her ...

The Mystery of the Male Bee: Not a Bumblebee! We instinctively talk about the queen bee or worker bees, but many people ...

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 ...

A new study has identified the bee's knees of bumble bee dietary options in Ohio and the Upper Midwest. By viewing almost 23,000 bumble bee-flower interactions over two years, researchers found that ...

This past summer, Shae Loecke saw something almost too good to be true. While walking near the Iowa Memorial Union footbridge ...

Carrying pollen is a workout that significantly increases the body temperature of bumble bees, a new study shows. This new understanding of active bumble bee body temperatures raises questions about ...

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 ...

Increasing summer temperatures, drought, disease, land use changes and insecticides have all been blamed for the precipitous ...