When bumble bees fight invasive Argentine ants for food, bees may win an individual skirmish but end up with less to feed the hive. Bumble bees are already under pressure from habitat loss, disease, ...

Mark Brown is Cambridge’s new Director of the Museum of Zoology. He’s devoted decades to understanding pollinator decline, ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. The Bumble Bee Atlas project is looking for volunteers to help count bees across the state. Citizen scientists help build a database used by researchers to ...

Scientists have developed a new "vaccine" that can help bumblebees survive lethal doses of one class of pesticides. Neonicotinoids, which have been outlawed in the European Union but are still legal ...

MANKATO — Bumble bees are in decline in Minnesota, but that doesn’t stop people from studying them. A study finds over half of U.S. bee colonies have vanished, and 64% of Minnesota’s hives have ...

Volunteers are needed to help compile what’s known as Iowa’s Bumble Bee Atlas, an effort to gauge the state’s populations of the vital pollinators. Stephanie Shepherd, a wildlife diversity biologist ...

The endangered rusty-patched bumble bee has achieved fame as the Minnesota state bee. It’s just one of about two dozen bumble bee species in Minnesota and scientists suspect others are at risk and ...