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 ...

If your salads have been teetering into boring territory lately, liven things up with this pomegranate chicken salad recipe. Featuring shredded chicken breast, pomegranate seeds, and a pomegranate ...

Chicken salad is one of those dishes that can easily be adjusted to take on a different flavor. You can have it creamy and classic with just mayo and celery. Or ...

MANKATO — Bumble bees are in decline in Minnesota, but that doesn’t stop people from studying them. A study finds over half of U.S. bee colonies have vanished, and 64% of Minnesota’s hives have ...

Bumble bees aren’t random foragers – they’re master nutritionists. Over an eight-year field study in the Colorado Rockies, scientists uncovered that different bee species strategically balance their ...

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 ...