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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

it provides overwintering habitat for bees and other insects. And so we just let it kind of be tall in the wintertime, and then in the spring kind of before a lot of plants start to grow ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Managed honey bees have the potential to affect native bee populations when they are introduced to a new area, but a new study suggests that, under certain conditions, the native bees can bounce back ...