Scientists are examining the extraordinary colony-building capacities of solo queen bumblebees to better understand cognition ...

Every bumble bee colony has a queen, but a new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests the process of determining which baby bee reigns supreme may be less monarchal than the royal title ...

Some of California’s most crucial insects seem to have gone missing. A new study suggests that populations of once-abundant bumble bee species in California may have experienced serious decline, after ...

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 ...

While every bumble bee colony has a queen, the process for becoming that queen bee may be a bit more democratic than ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided to list a bumblebee found only in Northern California and Southern Oregon as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. Franklin’s bumblebee hasn’t ...

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 ...