Bumblebee experts in England are celebrating a rise in the population of one of the country's rarest bumblebees. The Bumblebee Conservation Trust has recorded sightings of the shrill carder bee for at ...

Mason Lee, senior project coordinator of the Biodiversity Institute, holds up a bumble bee in a tube during last year’s Bumble Bee Atlas training. This year’s training is scheduled Sunday, June 1, ...

A newly mated bumblebee queen typically spends the winter alone underground. After mating in late summer or fall, she burrows into the soil and slips into diapause, an insect state of suspended ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just a few decades ago, bee enthusiasts across much of North America could count on spotting one of the continent’s most common ...

After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to ...

Former farmland that has been transformed into a mosaic of habitats has been awarded “champion status” for a rare bee which has set up home there. The shrill carder bee, named after its high-pitched ...

One of the Northwest’s most common animals has all but disappeared from much of the region. Citizen-scientists gathered in a wildflower meadow in the Washington Cascades in July to help the western ...

A team of researchers has uncovered alarming trends in the first range-wide genetic study of an endangered bee species. The study, led by Colorado State University and published in the Journal of ...

Bumblebees in Montana face an uncertain future, according to a new statewide project seeking volunteers to help research at-risk bumblebee species within the state. The Montana Bumble Bee Atlas, ...

HELP SOME OF IOWA’S SMALLEST BUT MOST IMPORTANT RESIDENTS TALK ABOUT THE BUMBLEBEE ATLAS. IS JENNY PUGA, A CONSERVATION BIOLOGIST WITH THE XERCES SOCIETY FOR INVERTEBRATE CONSERVATION. THANKS FOR ...

One of the UK’s rarest bumblebees is being given a boost – by putting the flowers it feeds on in cages. Conservationists and volunteers have planted 1,000 bilberry plants inside specially-designed ...