Volunteers across Iowa with an interest in pollinator conservation are needed for a new program that will help researchers track and monitor the state’s at-risk bumble bees. Stephanie Shepherd, a ...

The study focused on the Franklin bumble bee, once found only in parts of Oregon and California and last seen alive in 2006.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) — It’s no secret how important ...

Conservationists warn bees and butterflies are at risk of disappearing for good - More than 20 per cent of both bumblebee and ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A large black and yellow bumble bee that helps feed the world will get an assessment by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). The Southern Plains bumble bee is one of 10 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists are increasingly drawn to unmanaged colonies of this species, which use a variety of strategies to protect ...

A rare North American bumble bee may have been on a path toward extinction long before modern human impacts, suggesting that ...