Bees are undoubtedly crucial to earth's ecosystem (not to mention their benefits to human food supply), and you may be interested in creating a garden to attract them. There are numerous species that ...

These bees come from the "Old World" and are very effective pollinators for plants from the "Old World." However, when it ...

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 ...

There's been a craze for bee hives for some time, yet honey bees are not actually endangered. It's the native wild bees that ...

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 ...

Humans may not be the only species that struggles to eat the right amounts of the ideal foods. A new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests that what bumble bees choose to eat may not line up ...

I never realized how fuzzy a bumble bee is until I got to hold one between my fingertips. It feels like a furry black and yellow bear, buzzing with its tiny body, wriggling with its legs. The ...

Carrying pollen is a workout that significantly increases the body temperature of bumble bees, a new study shows. This new understanding of active bumble bee body temperatures raises questions about ...

A new study reveals clues about how carbon dioxide affects bumble bee physiology, including reproduction. While a beekeeper puffing clouds of carbon dioxide into a hive to calm the insects is a ...

Increasing summer temperatures, drought, disease, land use changes and insecticides have all been blamed for the precipitous ...