Climate change is rapidly restructuring North American bumble bee communities, according to newly published research from the laboratory of Professor Neal Williams, a pollination ecologist in the UC ...

Cornell researchers recently observed a novel ‘outhouse’ structure in Arctic bumble bee nests that could mitigate the spread of fecal-borne disease within bee colonies. The outhouse is a small and ...

Like a duck that, on the surface, looks like it is calmly floating on the water while paddling furiously underneath, a bumble bee hovering over a flower may look like it’s not doing much to the naked ...

AMES, IA — Once widespread across the eastern U.S. and Upper Midwest, the number of rusty patched bumble bees has plummeted nearly 90% since the 1990s. Researchers at Iowa State University are part of ...

Scientists call it the Beepocalyspe. (OK, not scientists, but I like to call it that.) In late 2006, whole hives of honey bees began dying overnight for reasons that are still unclear. Scientists ...

When you were young, were you the type of child who would scour open fields looking for bumble bees? Today, it is much harder for kids to spot them, since bumble bees are drastically declining in ...

A specimen of Franklin's bumblebee photographed by Robin Thorp. The rare bee, now thought to be extinct, was limited to a few counties in northern California and southern Oregon. A study of DNA from ...

From fundamental biological units as tiny as genes to complex societies, ecological systems rely on cooperation. All manner of organisms can benefit from working together to survive in a dog-eat-dog ...

From fundamental biological units as tiny as genes to complex societies, ecological systems rely on cooperation. All manner of organisms can benefit from working together to survive in a dog-eat-dog ...

This 2012 photo provided by The Xerces Society shows a rusty patched bumblebee in Minnesota. The state Legislature anointed the endangered species as the new state bee. When it comes to staying ...