After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to ...

Spring flooding was supposed to be a death sentence for them. Buried underground, dormant, with no way to surface, bumble bee queens caught in rising water seemed like straightforward casualties of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — A rare bee species was spotted in Syracuse for the first time at a SUNY College of Environmental ...

A newly mated bumblebee queen typically spends the winter alone underground. After mating in late summer or fall, she burrows ...

BUMBLEBEE queens have been hiding a remarkable superpower all this time. It turns out the buzzing insects can breathe ...

When it comes to bees, most people think of the honeybee or maybe a bumblebee, but bees are an incredibly diverse group of insects. With over 20,000 species described around the world, that number has ...

A photo of a bumblebee found near Kalamazoo, Michigan, was used to confirm the presence of a species rarely seen in recent decades. The photo of the rusty patched bumblebee was reported to iNaturalist ...

The United States has an amazing and diverse array of native bees. Across the country live about 4,000 native bee species — most of which are solitary and nest in the ground — coming in nearly every ...

It’s a question that has sparked the curiosity of scholars and bee lovers for decades: how many species of bees are there in the world? This might, at first, seem like a silly question. But it is a ...

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 ...

Only a few years ago during midsummer, an abundance of bumblebees would be buzzing around lush blooms in yards, gardens and farm fields all over Georgia. The fuzzy-looking bees also would be super ...