About 97 percent of the land in the state is privately owned. Meet the people helping to make it friendlier for native bugs.

A specimen of Franklin's bumblebee photographed by Robin Thorp. The rare bee, now thought to be extinct, was limited to a few ...

A rare North American bumble bee may have been on a path toward extinction long before modern human impacts, suggesting that ...

As summer fades and the crisp autumn air settles in, our gardens begin to wind down. But while most of the flowers may be ...

One butterfly species, the Madeiran large white – which was only found on the Portuguese island of Madeira - is now ...

Europe ’s wild bees and butterflies are facing an escalating extinction crisis, a new conservation assessment has warned, ...

More than half (52%) of Europe’s threatened butterfly species are affected by climate change, the IUCN warns, and some such ...

Kim Ballare was a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service until her federal grant “got snatched away.” ...

Bees play a central role in agriculture and biodiversity, but when they build hives inside homes or near high-traffic areas, removal often becomes a safety issue. A single colony can number in the ...

What looks like a bumblebee but bores through wood like a drill? The carpenter bee. And if you’ve ever had them in your rafters, you know the frustration: These tiny insects can do outsized damage to ...

Today’s photo of the day, “Carpenter bee doing his thing,” comes to us from Deborah Trescott. Send your best photos from Maui County to [email protected] for a chance to see them featured on our ...

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 ...