A pesticide approved for being safer than its predecessors may be quietly sabotaging the very insects farmers depend on, and ...

Scientists found low doses of a widely used pesticide disrupt bee reproduction by altering genes in their ovaries rather than ...

Bumblebees are only an inch long, but they help power the global food system. Roughly one-third of the food we grow depends ...

A study of bumble bees has uncovered a potential reason for the insects' decline. By studying bumble bee exposure to particulate air pollutants, scientists at the University of Leicester have ...

Scientists investigate bumblebee decline due to particulate pollutant exposure. A study of bumblebees has uncovered a potential reason for the insects’ decline. By studying bumblebee exposure to ...

Every bumble bee colony has a queen, but a new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests the process of determining which baby bee reigns supreme may be less monarchal than the royal title ...

The endangered rusty patched bumble bee has gained major occupied critical habitat protection across about 1.5 million acres.

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 ...