University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign insect ecologist Jason Robinson, PhD concludes in his paper, “Project-specific bumble bee habitat quality assessment,” “As the first social insect listed under ...

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 ...

Newly published Braintree author has released her first children's book, aiming to encourage kids to reach for their dreams.

What happens when the biodiversity witnessed by one generation fades into memory the next? These questions are crossroads at ...

Habitat loss, pesticide contamination, disease spillover from domesticated bee colonies, and other threats combine to accelerate the species’ decline. The Center petitioned to protect the American ...

The results are in for a pair of UC Davis insect-spotting contests. The winners of the 5th annual Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble-Bee-of-the-Year contest, sponsored by the Bohart Museum of ...

The B-Lines are a series of ‘insect pathways’ running through our countryside and towns. They link existing wildlife areas together, creating a network, like a railway, that will weave across the ...

The humble bumble bee, already battling habitat loss and climate change ... Their findings paint a troubling picture of widespread disruption throughout the insects’ bodies. By exposing bumble bees to ...

The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to release records documenting its finding that insecticides sprayed across millions of acres in 17 states ...

Living up to its name, the red-tailed bumblebee is black with a big ... It is a social bee, nesting in old burrows, or under stones. As with other social insects, the queen emerges from hibernation in ...

IOWA – We know taxes aren’t a lot of fun, but there is a small thing you can do to feel better about the process. Donating to ...