A team of researchers from the University of California, Riverside were unable to find some once common species of bumble bees during work to update a statewide census on the insects. Researchers ...

While the idea of listing insects is not new (the federal ESA lists eight species of bees), there are currently no insects listed under the California ESA," said Jordan Traverso, California ...

Now there is evidence that several species of bumble bees have gone missing in California. Entomologists from UC Riverside collected 100 bumble bees in 17 parts of the state to examine their ...

After removing the colony, home to the Apis mellifera species of honey bee, the team took it to an apiary on a mountain outside the urban sprawl of Mexico City. Moving the insects is no easy task.