While most gardeners celebrate the honeybee and mason bee, there is a larger, fuzzier, and arguably more valiant figure ...

Volunteers are needed to help compile what’s known as Iowa’s Bumble Bee Atlas, an effort to gauge the state’s populations of the vital pollinators. Stephanie Shepherd, a wildlife diversity biologist ...

Rusty patched bumble bees lost 87% of their population over the last couple of decades nationwide — their local populations here in Evanston declined as well. Scientists and residents in the greater ...

Gardening offers many benefits from the therapeutic to the aesthetic, and one new gardener on Reddit discovered another reason to be delighted with the activity. The Redditor shared a video of a ...

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 ...