The race to spot the year’s first bumble bee will begin just after midnight on New Year’s Day, as the Bohart Museum of ...

The 2025 contest was won by Michael Kwong of Sacramento and Kaylen Teves of Vallejo, Monarch Watch volunteers who ...

Quick Take Argentine ants are a non-native, invasive species in the United States. They compete with bumble bees for prized ...

Butterflies and bumble bees are all the rage these days at the U.S. Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology. It’s all in black and white — literally. The museum is hosting or assisting with two separate ...

There are five social species of bumble bees (Bombus spp.) native to Florida, and each is an important pollinator throughout the state. Although European honeybees make up about 85 percent of our ...

Wild bees across the west face a growing threat from microscopic parasites. Last week an Oregon researcher visited USU’s Ecology Center to discuss her findings.

A photo of a bumblebee found near Kalamazoo, Michigan, was used to confirm the presence of a species rarely seen in recent decades. The photo of the rusty patched bumblebee was reported to iNaturalist ...

When a bumble bee emerges from torpor, it repeatedly rubs its arms over its head and flexes its abdomen. It’s a half-stretch, half-dance move that warms the bee up and out of the state of decreased ...

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 ...

ST. PAUL — Meet Minnesota's new state bee: The rusty patched bumblebee, an endangered species you might be able to see in your own backyard. Once widespread and abundant, the bumblebee's population ...

Rescue crews assisted multiple hikers on a cool and rainy New Year's Day, including one operation that continued into Friday ...