The western bumble bee, once common in Washington State, is now facing a significant population decline due to disease and ...

Even professional apiarists confuse carpenter bees and bumblebees. Nevertheless, there are clues novice bee enthusiasts can ...

There are seven species of bumble bees in Rhode Island but there used to be twelve. Researchers are tracking local bee populations, to try and educate the community and create a better environment … ...

Bumblebees, among the most important pollinators, are in trouble. Fuzzy and buzzy, they excel at spreading pollen and fertilizing many types of wild flora, as well as crucial agricultural crops ...

Bumble bees have some unique traits that make them especially valuable for pollination, and the more we know about them, the better we can do at making sure they have habitat available.” ...

U.S. canned tuna producer Bumble Bee Foods has asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that it knowingly benefited from its suppliers’ use of forced labor by Indonesian workers.

Some queens don't rule nonstop. A new study from the University of California, Riverside shows that even bumble bee queens, the sole founders of their colonies, take regular breaks from ...

A heavily parasitized emergent adult honey bee showing females mites that were parasitic during larval and pupal development. Credit: bioRxiv (2025). DOI: 10.1101/2025.05.28.656706 ...

Insects buzzed among the blooming wildflowers at Mosier Gulch Recreation Area on a sunny afternoon in early June.

Accuracy maximization and complexity minimization are the two main goals of a fuzzy expert system based microarray data classification. Our previous Genetic Swarm Algorithm (GSA) approach has improved ...