The bee was once found in roughly half of the U.S. Now, rare sightings have been limited to about a dozen states.

A new genetic study reveals secrets about the creature, which may help researchers make decisions to conserve the species Anne Readel A rusty patched bumblebee, the first bumblebee species to be ...

A rare bee species’s nest has been spotted in Iowa for the first time since its listing as federally endangered in 2017. The bombus affinis bee nest, more commonly known as the rusty patched bumblebee ...

A photo of a bumblebee found near Kalamazoo, Michigan, was used to confirm the presence of a species rarely seen in recent decades. The photo of the rusty patched bumblebee was reported to iNaturalist ...

Scientists want to know how well bees are coping with habitat loss. But first, they need to be able to tell nearly identical species apart. Just a few decades ago, bee enthusiasts across much of North ...

Worker bees help decide which bumblebee larvae become queens by feeding them juvenile hormone during growth period.

A walk in the cemetery led to Cornell researchers discovering an underground colony of bees with an estimated population of 5 ...

Scientists have been warning for years that bumblebee populations are declining, posing a risk to the vital role that pollinators have in helping maintain food and plants across the world. New ...

The lawsuit says the Fish and Wildlife Service missed mandatory deadlines to decide on whether the bees should be listed as endangered or threatened. Environmentalists sued the Fish and Wildlife ...

Scientists are examining the extraordinary colony-building capacities of solo queen bumblebees to better understand cognition ...