Bumble bees play, according to new research led by Queen Mary University of London published in Animal Behaviour. It is the first time that object play behaviour has been shown in an insect, adding to ...

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 ...

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 ...

(KXAN) – A study by Agricultural Research Service, which is the in-house research agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, showed honey bees revisit the same flower patch more often than bumble ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rusty patched bumble bees lost 87% of their population over the last couple of decades nationwide — their local populations here in Evanston declined as well. Scientists and residents in the greater ...

MILWAUKEE - If you go for a walk from mid-April through May in an old Wisconsin forest, odds are you may have noticed diverse beds of flowers less than a foot high. These are spring ephemerals – short ...

In the first long-term, community-level field study of wild bumble bee nutrition, a team of ecologists led by Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden discovered that wild bees aren't ...

DEAR JOAN: It is normal to have lots of bumblebees around on our property, especially when rosemary and manzanita shrubs are in bloom. What is not normal is frequently seeing dead bumble bees on ...

Bees are amazing animals. Detailed studies show that they enjoy rich and deep social, cognitive, and emotional lives. They display dopamine-based positive emotions, get depressed, anxious, and ...