Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bumble bee clings to an alfalfa leaf. (Photo by Krista Lundgren/USFWS) TOPEKA — Kansas needs help documenting bumble bees to ...

APPANOOSE COUNTY, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - Volunteers across Iowa conducted nearly 500 bumble bee atlas surveys in 2025, which was more than three times the number of surveys conducted the year ...

Citizen-scientists gathered in a wildflower meadow in the Washington Cascades in July to help the western bumblebee keep buzzing through the air. Nearly a mile high in the Wenatchee Mountains, the ...

Volunteers are needed to help compile what’s known as Iowa’s Bumble Bee Atlas, an effort to gauge the state’s populations of the vital pollinators. Stephanie Shepherd, a wildlife diversity biologist ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners! Thank goodness for the recent rains we have received. Many areas in the Valley are still very dry. Many livestock farmers are feeding hay but pastures will ...

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) published its final rule designating critical habitat for the endangered rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) on June 1, 2026. The rule designates more ...

Ongoing research into the effect of environmental change on the buzzing of bees reveals that high temperatures and exposure to heavy metals reduces the frequency (and audible pitch) of non-flight wing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The tricolor bumble bee, pictured, is one of 13 species identified by volunteers in the Iowa Bumble Bee Atlas. (Photo by Megan ...