A bumblebee is now on the endangered species list for the first time in a "race against extinction," the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday. The agency placed the rusty patched bumblebee ...

Bumblebees have been all the buzz lately. Headlines abound about how bumblebee populations continue to decline across the world, a decline ushered in by factors such a loss of habitat due to climate ...

To begin, you have to understand why they’re on the decline in the first place, and there are two major reasons: Too much use of pesticides that happen to have negative effects on pollinators, such as ...

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 ...

One species of bumblebee has become so rare in New Hampshire and 15 other states that a wildlife advocacy group believes the particular bug is extinct in most of New England and the eastern United ...

"Significantly impair the living conditions." Scientists issue warning over concerning shift in behavior of bumblebees: 'It ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that an insect—the bumblebee Bombus ...

The rusty patched bumblebee’s path to the endangered list was as up and down as the way it flies. After a years-long run-up to a determination early this year that it was eligible for the list, and a ...

The latest buzz in the reptile world is a new "bumblebee" gecko species discovered in Papua New Guinea. Dubbed Nactus kunan—kunan meaning "bumblebee" in the local Nali language—the black-and-gold ...