A team of scientists recently rediscovered the rarest species of bumblebee in the United States, last seen in 1956, living in the White Mountains of south-central New Mexico. Known as "Cockerell's ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

image: Bees play a key role in our ecosystem and in the world's food supply. Thanks to a large collaborative effort, the genomes of two important pollinating bumblebees have been sequenced and ...

Andony Melathopoulos, a pollinator specialist at Oregon State University, holds a metallic sweat bee bumblebee from his collection. By Jane Arterberry and Jubilee Likayi ­ Bumblebees buzz around a ...

Bumblebees look cute. They have a thick fur, fly somewhat clumsily and are less aggressive than honeybees or wasps. They are very much appreciated by farmers as keen pollen collectors. Particularly in ...

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 ...

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 ...

ARKHANGELSK, November 7. /TASS/. Experts of the Federal Arctic Studies Center (the Russian Academy of Sciences' Urals Branch) found five species of bumblebees on the Kolguev Island in the Barents Sea.

The much-loved fuzzy insects will suffer as around 30 per cent of their current habitat will become unsuitable for them under the 'worst case scenario' of climate change. The bumblebee prefers the ...