After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to investigate what makes that super-ability possible ...

Bumblebees are missing from gardens after record rainfall in spring, experts have warned. The UK had the wettest spring on record, with rainfall on most days in April and May, delaying queen bees from ...

Bumblebee experts in England are celebrating a rise in the population of one of the country's rarest bumblebees. The Bumblebee Conservation Trust has recorded sightings of the shrill carder bee for at ...

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, ...

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 ...

One of the UK’s rarest bumblebees is being given a boost – by putting the flowers it feeds on in cages. Conservationists and volunteers have planted 1,000 bilberry plants inside specially-designed ...

Bumblebees in Montana face an uncertain future, according to a new statewide project seeking volunteers to help research at-risk bumblebee species within the state. The Montana Bumble Bee Atlas, ...

A rare bee species’s nest has been spotted in Iowa for the first time since its listing as federally endangered in 2017. The bombus affinis bee nest, more commonly known as the rusty patched bumblebee ...

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 ...