Wild bumblebees serve as key hosts for acute bee paralysis virus. While the virus appears to cause little harm to bumblebees, ...

European bumblebees were introduced into Chile as pollinators. However, these socially living insects have since spread across the southern part of South America -- very much to the detriment of ...

The American Bumblebee - a species once more commonly seen buzzing around Southern Ontario - is critically endangered, according to a new study. The finding found the native North American species, ...

In most bumblebee species, the queens spend their winters buried underground in a tiny cavity the size of a grape. For six to ...

The Bumble Bee Atlas project is active across 21 states and trains volunteers to survey, photograph, and report bumblebee ...

The American bumblebee could soon be declared an endangered species, according to federal officials. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) said in a proposed rule that petitions to list the ...

For the first time, a bumblebee has been placed on the endangered species list. But what if they went extinct? Well, if you like to eat, you should worry about bumblebees — they're the most important ...

Some of California’s most crucial insects seem to have gone missing. A new study suggests that populations of once-abundant bumble bee species in California may have experienced serious decline, after ...

I recently shared a study with you that documented a disturbing decline in insect-pollinated wildflowers (more here). There are a variety of threats to flowering plants, and foremost amongst them is ...

A pretty bumblebee you're thinking, but that is actually a very rare bee called Cockrell's Bumblebee and this past August scientists rediscovered it. The last time it was seen in the wild was 55 years ...

The New Hampshire Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources heard two ideas to address shrinking insect populations in ...