LOGAN, Utah, June 20, 2023 — A detailed, high-resolution map of the rusty patched bumble bee’s genome has been released by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and ...
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is seeking data and public comments on a petition to list the Crotch’s bumble bee, Franklin’s bumble bee, Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee and western bumble ...
In January, Lesley Hamamoto won the prize by being the first to photograph and submit the first bumblebee of the year in the contest. She photographed a black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, ...
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. The ...
Some of Alaska's most valuable pollinators are bumblebees and, it turns out, we have a lot of them. As bumblebees have declined in parts of the Lower 48, they're apparently thriving in Alaska, even in ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The American bumble bee is an integral part of our ecosystem, providing essential pollination of native plants and farmed crops alike. Unfortunately, recent data shows that the bee ...
This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. "People don't come to Denali and other parks in Alaska to look at bumblebees, but they should,” says ...
Extreme environments offer them an unexpected paradise, and now researchers are working to get a head count. “People don’t come to Denali and other parks in Alaska to look at bumblebees, but they ...