Canvey Wick is home to the vulnerable shrill carder bee.

The rusty patched bumble bee is small enough to be overlooked, but its decline has become one of the clearest warnings about pollinator loss in North America. The designation of about 1.5 million ...

(NEXSTAR) — The rusty patched bumble bee was once found in roughly half the U.S., from Maine down south to Georgia and as far west as the Dakotas. Today, only about a dozen states have recorded ...

Bumblebees are disappearing around the world. But so far, scientists can only speculate about what’s causing their demise, probing the effects of habitat loss, pesticides and disease. Now, new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A bumblebee once common across much of the United States is getting a major boost from federal wildlife ...

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) published its final rule designating critical habitat for the endangered rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) on June 1, 2026. The rule designates more ...

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) has published its final rule designating critical habitat for the endangered rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis). What Does the Rule Do? The rule ...

As a result of the climate crisis, global warming is driving up temperatures around the world—and bumblebees, like humans, are struggling to cope with homes that can't beat the heat. In a new article ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. One day in early August, Michelle Wiegand was doing yard work at her Iowa City house. While moving old ...

A comparative 2021 survey of 28 sites in Austria and Luxembourg found that extensive grasslands performed better in Tyrol, ...