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

Bumble bees—vital and fuzzy pollinators—face unique threats amidst global insect declines. If the insect world has a fuzzy, charismatic cutie, it’s surely the humble bumble bee. While insect ...

I never realized how fuzzy a bumble bee is until I got to hold one between my fingertips. It feels like a furry black and yellow bear, buzzing with its tiny body, wriggling with its legs.

Across the country live about 4,000 native bee species — most of which are solitary and nest in the ground — coming in nearly every color of the rainbow and ranging widely in size. The country harbors ...

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

Wild bee populations have been in decline for several years, although honey bee populations have been growing. In 2021 the American bumblebee population had decreased by 89% over the previous two ...

May 6—(StatePoint) May 20 is World Bee Day, an opportunity to celebrate not only the beloved honey bee ... metallic, fuzzy, thin and rotund, in a spectrum of colors. The world's smallest ...

A new study has identified the bee's knees ... with the fuzzy buzzers are Culver's root and wild indigo. The study was published recently in the journal Ecosphere. Of the 16 bumble bee species ...

The rusty patched bumble bee became Minnesota's state bee in 2019, and can be identified by a rust-colored patch on its fuzzy yellow abdomen. It can be found in grasslands and prairie areas in the ...

Bumblebees can learn to solve a puzzle by watching other bees solve it, according to a new study by Alice Dorothy Bridges and colleagues at Queen Mary University of London, UK. The big ...