Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Bees are widely considered the most effective and important ...

Conserving Bumble Bees outlines the important role bumble bees play in both agricultural and wild plant pollination, details the threats they face, and provides information on how land managers can ...

The rusty patched bumble bee, a prized but vanishing pollinator once familiar to much of North America, was listed on Tuesday as an endangered species, becoming the first wild bee in the continental ...

The American bumble bee, a widespread species that appears to be in decline, is being reviewed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for possible federal protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Earlier this week, the rusty patched bumblebee became the first bee in the ...

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 ...

Despite the broad recognition of mimicry among bumble bees, distinct North American mimicry rings have yet to be defined, due in part to the prevalence of intermediate and imperfect mimics in this ...

A rare North American bumble bee may have been on a path toward extinction long before modern human impacts, suggesting that ...

The rusty patched bumble bee gained federal protection Tuesday after the Trump administration removed its hold on listing the species as endangered. The listing, the first time a bumble bee species in ...