A rare North American bumble bee may have been on a path toward extinction long before modern human impacts, suggesting that its long-term genetic vulnerability made it especially fragile and less ...

UC Davis entomologist Robbin Thorp monitored populations of Franklin's bumble bee (Bombus franklini) until his death in 2019. The bee, found only in a limited area on the border of California and ...

KALAMAZOO, MI – Scientists have discovered an extremely rare bumble bee species in Michigan for the first time in more than 25 years. Ecologists believed for years that the rusty-patched bumble bee ...

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The former Showley Bros. Candy Factory on 10th Avenue, now Bumble Bee’s headquarters. (File photo by Chris Jennewein/Times of San Diego) Human-rights groups were shocked in March by lawsuit ...

The Berkeley County School District and H.G. Reynolds Company celebrated the “topping off” ceremony for Bee Tree Elementary Thursday, May 8, the new school being built in the Jedburg area near the ...

As numbers of these key pollinators decline, conservationists are eyeing new federal protections for one vulnerable species By Alex Fox Photograph by Clay Bolt Bumblebees’ round, hairy bodies are ...

Today, if you search YouTube for a 1950s version of Buck Rogers, you’ll find plenty of smooth, AI-generated-looking trailers that seem like comic strips come to ...

The plaintiffs allege they endured physical abuse, debt bondage, dangerous working conditions and denial of medical care while working on fishing vessels that supplied tuna to Bumble Bee, according to ...

MADISON, Wis. — Federal wildlife officials announced Wednesday they will consider adding 10 new species to the Endangered Species Act, including a big bumble bee that serves as a key pollinator across ...