The bumblebees avoid drowning by combining underwater gas exchange with anaerobic metabolism, according to a new study.

A newly mated bumblebee queen typically spends the winter alone underground. After mating in late summer or fall, she burrows ...

Bumblebees have been all the buzz lately. Headlines abound about how bumblebee populations continue to decline across the world, a decline ushered in by factors such a loss of habitat due to climate ...

Bumblebees are considered tireless pollinators in tomato cultivation–but behind the scenes, a darker picture emerges: mass breeding, the use of medication, and painful killing are reportedly common ...

FRISCO, Colo. — Jacqueline Staab found a way to combine her two passions in her conservation research efforts: bees and dogs. Staab’s dog Darwin was trained as a conservation detection dog to seek out ...

One species of bumblebee has become so rare in New Hampshire and 15 other states that a wildlife advocacy group believes the particular bug is extinct in most of New England and the eastern United ...

A rare bee species’s nest has been spotted in Iowa for the first time since its listing as federally endangered in 2017. The bombus affinis bee nest, more commonly known as the rusty patched bumblebee ...

A rusty-patched bumblebee on Culver’s root in the arboretum at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. (Photo by Photo By Susan Day Via Uw-Madison Arboretum via Courthouse News) CHICAGO (CN) — The ...

Honeybees get most of our attention, but there are thousands of species of wild bee species—and many are disappearing. In South Dakota’s Badlands National Park, a brown-belted bumblebee visits a ...

Bumblebees, with their large, plush bodies, are particularly popular among insects. Many people observe these creatures ...