Cornell researchers recently observed a novel ‘outhouse’ structure in Arctic bumble bee nests that could mitigate the spread of fecal-borne disease within bee colonies. The outhouse is a small and ...

One of the amusements a garden can provide is watching the birds, bees, butterflies and other critters drawn to it. Most of us have seen honeybees flying from flower to flower, sipping nectar or ...

Queen bumblebees have sparser hair on their tongues than worker bees, which makes them less efficient at lapping up nectar, ...

(This story was updated to correct how often the rusty patched bumble bee has been seen. It's been seen in seven states over 10 years.) The rusty patched bumble bee had only been seen in seven states ...

During spring, when queen bumblebees first emerge from hibernation to start their nests, they work incredibly hard foraging ...

There are five social species of bumble bees (Bombus spp.) native to Florida, and each is an important pollinator throughout the state. Although European honeybees make up about 85 percent of our ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) -While honey bees nest in trees and bumble bees nest in the ground, carpenter bees nest in wood. Most carpenter bees spend their time around dead wood. They get their name from ...

Freya Marie Jackson received funding from the Australian Entomological Society (AES) through their "Small Grant Award", which supported some of this research on native bees. Additionally, she has ...

The rusty patched bumble bee had only been seen in seven states over the last 10 years. That was until a Johnson County Conservation staff member noticed groups of bees exiting and entering a small ...