The rusty patched bumble bee, formally named bombus affinis ... This year’s drought, for example, is altering flower bloom times and causing widespread wilt. Despite the challenges of bee ...

Bella Rubietta has devoted dozens of hours to helping a bug so uncommon she has yet to see it. The 14-year-old Prior Lake resident wrote a children’s book and brochures on the topic, held ...

The queen bee is the only one that can lay eggs and it’s up to the female workers to pollinate plants and flowers. Bumble bees are also able to fly in colder temperatures and will often be seen ...

Here are five of the best flowers to plant no matter what size ... also revealed that, of the 26 bumble bee species recorded in the UK 80 years ago, two are no longer present and another six ...

The new award was named after local photographer and Pollinator Project co-founder Barry Wells, who died in 2024, and will ...

I was out in the countryside trying to find interesting flowers to photograph when I came across this beautiful bumble bee collecting pollen from a thistle, Scotland's emblem.

If you find a bumblebee which appears to be struggling, it may be that it is just resting, particularly if the bee is a queen in early spring. If you think the bee is struggling the best thing to do ...

Sightings of Minnesota’s state bee continue to excite bee surveyors in the Twin Cities metro who say the endangered pollinator has recently been spotted in residential gardens and other ...