A Queen Bumblebee Faces Impossible Odds Alone and Scientists Just Discovered She May Be Smarter Than Everyone Thought ...

In the run-up to World Bee Day (20 May), which aims to raise awareness of the importance of pollinators for food security, ...

Scientists are examining the extraordinary colony-building capacities of solo queen bumblebees to better understand cognition ...

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 ...

While every bumble bee colony has a queen, the process for becoming that queen bee may be a bit more democratic than ...

It’s not easy being a queen — a bumblebee queen, that is. To start her colony in the spring, an expectant queen must first survive the winter by hibernating alone in the soil, where she’s vulnerable ...

Even professional apiarists confuse carpenter bees and bumblebees. Nevertheless, there are clues that novice bee enthusiasts can rely on to help them properly distinguish these bees from each other.

Every bumble bee colony has a queen, but a new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests the process of determining which baby bee reigns supreme may be less monarchal than the royal title ...

As World Bee Day approaches on 20 May, offering a timely reminder of pollinators' vital role in food security, biodiversity, and ecosystem health, many might find themselves pondering the intricate ...

Scientists have been warning for years that bumblebee populations are declining, posing a risk to the vital role that pollinators have in helping maintain food and plants across the world. New ...

Rusty patched bumble bees lost 87% of their population over the last couple of decades nationwide — their local populations here in Evanston declined as well. Scientists and residents in the greater ...