Bumble bees sustain many of our most nutritious crops, while honey bees underpin food production across the globe.

A new study has identified the bee's knees of bumble bee dietary options in Ohio and the Upper Midwest. By viewing almost 23,000 bumble bee-flower interactions over two years, researchers found that ...

A rare North American bumble bee may have been on a path toward extinction long before modern human impacts, suggesting that its long-term genetic vulnerability made it especially fragile and less ...

New research finds that higher temperatures can actually benefit some bumble bee species—particularly those that make ...

As World Bee Day approaches on 20 May, offering a timely reminder of pollinators' vital role in food security, biodiversity, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Western bumble bee. Rich Hatfield / Xerxes Society (yale_environment_360_articles_559) A census of California bumble bees failed ...

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 ...