Decades ago, the Bombus affinis species of the bumble bee could be seen thriving across the Eastern and Midwest regions of the United States. The species is distinguished by the presence of a rusty ...

A project is under way to try and help one of the UK's "most threatened" species of bumblebee. The Bumblebee Conservation Trust is leading a £907,000 three-year scheme alongside the University of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bumblebee experts in England are celebrating a rise in the population of one of the country's rarest bumblebees. The Bumblebee ...

Community science volunteers—laypeople with an interest in bees and conservation—significantly contribute to the scientific knowledge of native bumble bees across Canada and the United States, finds a ...

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

In 2021, scientists in Guelph, Ontario set out to accomplish something that had never been done before: open a lab specifically designed for raising bumble bees in captivity. Now, three years later, ...

Mason Lee, senior project coordinator of the Biodiversity Institute, holds up a bumble bee in a tube during last year’s Bumble Bee Atlas training. This year’s training is scheduled Sunday, June 1, ...

HELP SOME OF IOWA’S SMALLEST BUT MOST IMPORTANT RESIDENTS TALK ABOUT THE BUMBLEBEE ATLAS. IS JENNY PUGA, A CONSERVATION BIOLOGIST WITH THE XERCES SOCIETY FOR INVERTEBRATE CONSERVATION. THANKS FOR ...