The Obama administration has determined that a bumblebee once found throughout the eastern United States and Upper Midwest is on the brink of extinction and needs federal protection to save it from a ...

Just a few decades ago, bee enthusiasts across much of North America could count on spotting one of the continent’s most common bumblebee species buzzing from flower to flower. Today, the American ...

PORTLAND A once-common bumblebee, which mysteriously disappeared west of the Cascades 15 years ago, has been discovered in the Mount Hood National Forest. A recent survey by the Xerces Society ...

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Eight states currently report having zero or nearly zero American bumblebees left, according to a petition A petition has been filed requesting the American bumblebee be listed as an endangered ...

Bumblebees are lovable, adorable and admirably occupied. They tumble along like toddlers drunk on the sweet smells of pretty flowers, breathing in one, then another and another. If Winnie-the-Pooh ...

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It's the spines. New research shows that the spiny pollen from plants in the sunflower family (Asteraceae) both reduces infection of a common bee parasite by 81 -- 94% and markedly increases the ...

A three-dimensional atlas of the bumblebee brain is now available. It will allow to even better research how nerve cells are interconnected and how they process information. The buff-tailed bumblebee ...

A petition has been filed requesting the American bumblebee be listed as an endangered species as the insect's population declines in the United States. Eight states — Maine, Rhode Island, New ...