Honeybees are aggressively pushing wild pollinators away from flowers, with scientists documenting how they chase off rivals ...

Bumble bees battling invasive Argentine ants may win individual fights but ultimately lose valuable foraging time, putting pressure on colonies already strained by habitat loss, disease, and ...

A new tool could help researchers monitor struggling pollinator populations without killing the insects they’re trying to protect.

Bumble bees can generate their own heat, allowing them to be active in the colder temperatures of spring and fall. Only young, mated queen bumble bees survive the winter by hibernating underground.

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 ...

A team of researchers has uncovered alarming trends in the first range-wide genetic study of an endangered bee species. The study, led by Colorado State University and published in the Journal of ...

Canvey Wick is home to the vulnerable shrill carder bee.

A detailed, high-resolution map of the rusty patched bumble bee's genome has been released by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

This fascinating fact has come to light, so to speak, as a video of bees not being able to fly without light has gone viral on TikTok and Reddit. The video captures dozens of bees plummeting to the ...

A whole-genome study of 524 bumble bees across nine Central European urban–rural pairs finds repeated, parallel genomic divergence linked to city environments despite high gene flow.