There are five social species of bumble bees (Bombus spp.) native to Florida, and each is an important pollinator throughout the state. Although European honeybees make up about 85 percent of our ...

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 ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners! Thank goodness for the recent rains we have received. Many areas in the Valley are still very dry. Many livestock farmers are feeding hay but pastures will ...

A rare bee made an appearance in the St. Louis region for the first time since the late 1800s. It’s called the lemon cuckoo bumblebee. The bee was spotted in Ned Siegel’s garden in Belleville this ...

If you see a bumblebee buzzing around our region’s early-blooming flowers, it’s a queen. Roused by warming temperatures, she ...

As Triangle residents sweat through a sweltering heatwave, scientists at NC State are looking into how the rising temperatures are impacting pollinators. “In North Carolina, we historically had 15 ...

Spring will be here soon. Really, it will. Once the days are warm enough, last fall’s new queen bumblebees will emerge and start looking for a good place to start their colonies. Last fall, as the ...