But, not so for bumblebees, where the queen is larger but otherwise physically indistinguishable from her workers. In a study ...

The race to spot the year’s first bumble bee will begin just after midnight on New Year’s Day, as the Bohart Museum of Entomology sponsors the sixth annual Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble ...

Apart from managed honey bees, there is increasing evidence that some wild bee species have experienced regional declines in North America. These include Bombus affinis, the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee, ...

Bumble bee enthusiast Lesley Hamamoto of Sacramento, and a UC Davis alumna who remembers well the entomology class she took from UC Davis distinguished Emeritus Professor Robbin Thorp in 1998, is the ...

A new study has identified the bee's knees of bumble bee dietary options in Ohio and the Upper Midwest. By viewing almost 23,000 bumble bee-flower interactions over two years, researchers found that ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is seeking data and public comments on a petition to list the Crotch’s bumble bee, Franklin’s bumble bee, Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee and western bumble ...

Butterflies and bumble bees are all the rage these days at the U.S. Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology. It’s all in black and white — literally. The museum is hosting or assisting with two separate ...

An endangered bumble bee may delay the $114 million Highway 5 Improvements Project. In January 2017 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) put the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee (Bombus Affinis) on the ...

I never realized how fuzzy a bumble bee is until I got to hold one between my fingertips. It feels like a furry black and yellow bear, buzzing with its tiny body, wriggling with its legs. The ...

Scientists used next-generation sequencing to look inside bumblebees for evidence of pesticide exposure, including neonicotinoids, as well as pathogens, and found both. Using a conservation genomic ...