A study shows that bumblebees can be trained to tell the difference between long and short light flashes. Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have discovered, for the first time, that an ...

A study finds that bumblebees can tell long and short light flashes apart, revealing a surprising timing skill in these tiny ...

Bees are well-known to be sentient individuals with very active minds who display rich cognitive and emotional lives. 1 What has never before been shown is that bumble bees, who play with balls and ...

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 ...

Beekeepers struggle with rising salinity and extreme heat Honey production in Basra expected to decline by 50% this season Water crisis worsened by upstream dams, raising salinity levels BASRA, Iraq, ...

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 ...

Organisers of the Verbal Victory Spelling Bee hope to see students from all eligible schools on the island participate in the annual competition. Linda Parker, from the charity’s board of trustees, ...

Bran Romero spent several months visiting the Yakima Valley, where he volunteered for Cowiche Canyon Conservancy. Romero lives on the East Coast and came to the Valley in his role as a volunteer for ...

A rare bee species called the diadasia nitidifrons collected by a Washington Bee Atlas volunteer in Yakima County. This bee was last documented in Washington in 1919. Courtesy Washington Bee Atlas / ...

More than two dozen new and rare bee species were documented during the first year of a new Washington state project that’s designed to get a better understanding of the insects. The Washington State ...