Bumblebee experts in England are celebrating a rise in the population of one of the country's rarest bumblebees. The Bumblebee Conservation Trust has recorded sightings of the shrill carder bee for at ...

Mason Lee, senior project coordinator of the Biodiversity Institute, holds up a bumble bee in a tube during last year’s Bumble Bee Atlas training. This year’s training is scheduled Sunday, June 1, ...

The program would give long-term permits to energy companies and others if they took steps to protect bee habitat. The Fish and Wildlife Service floated a notion Thursday intended to simultaneously ...

A team of researchers has uncovered alarming trends in the first range-wide genetic study of an endangered bee species. The study, led by Colorado State University and published in the Journal of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just a few decades ago, bee enthusiasts across much of North America could count on spotting one of the continent’s most common ...

Former farmland that has been transformed into a mosaic of habitats has been awarded “champion status” for a rare bee which has set up home there. The shrill carder bee, named after its high-pitched ...

Bumblebees in Montana face an uncertain future, according to a new statewide project seeking volunteers to help research at-risk bumblebee species within the state. The Montana Bumble Bee Atlas, ...

HELP SOME OF IOWA’S SMALLEST BUT MOST IMPORTANT RESIDENTS TALK ABOUT THE BUMBLEBEE ATLAS. IS JENNY PUGA, A CONSERVATION BIOLOGIST WITH THE XERCES SOCIETY FOR INVERTEBRATE CONSERVATION. THANKS FOR ...

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 ...