Bumble bees cling to goldenrod blooms on a frosty fall morning. The goldenrod is still in bloom, and one small cluster of flowers had five little bumblebees hanging, motionless, from the undersides of ...

A rare North American bumble bee may have been on a path toward extinction long before modern human impacts, suggesting that its long-term genetic vulnerability made it especially fragile and less ...

The post Dead Bumblebees Are Piling up This Summer — Here's the Reason appeared first on A-Z Animals. With summer in full swing, insects are emerging. This includes bumblebees, which work to grow ...

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 ...

She spent 30 hours helping one tiny bee! Scarlet found this exhausted bumblebee on the floor of her barn and refused to give up on her. At The Dodo, we're always moved by the lengths people will go to ...

While I was stalking Western meadowlarks with my camera, a smaller flash of flying black and yellow caught my interest. I don’t see bumblebees often, and this one was not stopping at flowers but it ...

When bumble bees fight invasive Argentine ants for food, bees may win an individual skirmish but end up with less to feed the hive. Bumble bees are already under pressure from habitat loss, disease, ...