AZ Animals

Inside the Battle Between Bumble Bees and Invasive Ants

Argentine ants compete with bumble bees for prized nectar sources. But the bees are fighting back. Find out how.
Smithsonian Magazine

Fossils Suggest That Some Ancient Burrowing Bees Made Their Homes in Rodent Skulls

While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a researcher noticed something strange in the hollow ...
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Insects Master Bumblebee Disguise

Deception is everywhere in nature. Animals and plants routinely cheat, lie and manipulate for their own benefit. One example is mimicry, where one species (the mimic) has evolved to resemble another ...
The Conversation

Nature’s greatest method actors: the insects that cosplay bumblebees

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European Bee-eaters Catch Insects at Sunset

Watch European bee-eaters hunting insects as the sun sets Trump’s Message to Bondi Sparks DOJ Firestorm Teen handcuffed after AI system mistakes bag of chips for gun Concerns raised over suspension of ...
ucdavis.edu

Population Decline of Franklin’s Bumble Bee Wasn’t Due to Pathogens, Museum Genomic Research Shows

UC Davis entomologist Robbin Thorp monitored populations of Franklin's bumble bee (Bombus franklini) until his death in 2019. The bee, found only in a limited area on the border of California and ...
LAist

Could a bumblebee derail a decades old housing project? Advocates say there's a chance

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Wichita Eagle

A bumblebee lookalike could be gnawing through your Kansas deck this spring

Carpenter bees are native to the United States and common in Kansas. Here’s what to consider if you have one making holes in your deck. CB Strickland Getty Images/iStockphoto As the afternoons get ...
New York Post

US tuna giant Bumble Bee Foods accused of profiting from ‘modern-day slavery,’ human trafficking and forced labor: suit

The plaintiffs allege they endured physical abuse, debt bondage, dangerous working conditions and denial of medical care while working on fishing vessels that supplied tuna to Bumble Bee, according to ...
SFGate

Calif. seafood company benefitted from human trafficking, lawsuit alleges

California-headquartered tuna brand Bumble Bee Foods has knowingly profited from forced labor on its suppliers’ fishing vessels for years, alleges a lawsuit filed in San Diego County federal court on ...
Los Angeles Times

Indonesian fishermen sue Bumble Bee and say the canned tuna giant knew of abuse in its supply chain

SAN DIEGO — Lawyers representing four Indonesian fishermen who say they were beaten and trapped on vessels that were part of the global supply chain that provided tuna to Bumble Bee Seafoods filed a ...