HELP SOME OF IOWA’S SMALLEST BUT MOST IMPORTANT RESIDENTS TALK ABOUT THE BUMBLEBEE ATLAS. IS JENNY PUGA, A CONSERVATION BIOLOGIST WITH THE XERCES SOCIETY FOR INVERTEBRATE CONSERVATION. THANKS FOR ...

Mason Lee, senior project coordinator of the Biodiversity Institute, holds up a bumble bee in a tube during last year’s Bumble Bee Atlas training. This year’s training is scheduled Sunday, June 1, ...

Bumblebees are critical pollinators, but their populations are rapidly declining, conservationists say. The bees are some of the more well-known pollinators due to size and loud buzzing. "It’s ...

FRISCO, Colo. — Jacqueline Staab found a way to combine her two passions in her conservation research efforts: bees and dogs. Staab’s dog Darwin was trained as a conservation detection dog to seek out ...

Citizen-scientists gathered in a wildflower meadow in the Washington Cascades in July to help the western bumblebee keep buzzing through the air. Nearly a mile high in the Wenatchee Mountains, the ...

Bumblebees are missing from gardens after record rainfall in spring, experts have warned. The UK had the wettest spring on record, with rainfall on most days in April and May, delaying queen bees from ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Bumble bees are one of the more well-known pollinators due to their large size and loud buzz. These fuzzy fliers are critical pollinators, but sadly their populations are ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In a time of unprecedented species extinction, when seemingly every day brings news of yet another animal or plant on the precipice of population collapse, ...

The American bumblebee, a widespread species that appears to be in decline, is being reviewed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for possible federal protection under the Endangered Species Act.