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 ...

MANKATO — Bumble bees are in decline in Minnesota, but that doesn’t stop people from studying them. A study finds over half of U.S. bee colonies have vanished, and 64% of Minnesota’s hives have ...

Bumble Bee is now a small, quiet ghost town off Interstate 17, about 50 miles southeast of Prescott. The area, however, was once a lively stage stop on a route known as "the Phoenix Road," the main ...

The study focused on the Franklin bumble bee, once found only in parts of Oregon and California and last seen alive in 2006.