As a result of the climate crisis, global warming is driving up temperatures around the world — and bumblebees, like humans, are struggling to cope with homes that can’t beat the heat. In a new ...

Bumblebees are on the decline. This isn't exactly a revelation, and without bees to help pollinate plants, the world will suffer. Now, though, researchers say they've found a major new factor in the ...

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 ...

A: The phenomenon of seeing the wax from an outdoor bee nest (not beehive) is not unknown, but it is certainly unusual. It is what’s left after a swarm of bees, led by a queen, can’t find a sheltered ...

Kyle Price, a field biologist (left) and Robert Jean, senior entomologist, both with Environmental Solutions & Innovations, study some of the soil excavated from an Iowa City yard while the pair were ...

Rising global temperatures may be making bumblebee nests too hot for them to survive. The global bumblebee population has declined since the 1950s, sparking speculation on the causes – researchers ...

Bumblebees are disappearing around the world. But so far, scientists can only speculate about what’s causing their demise, probing the effects of habitat loss, pesticides and disease. Now, new ...

The rusty patched bumblebee became the first bee to be federally listed as endangered in 2017, but researchers studying this rare and charming creature are getting help locating it from an unexpected ...

Deep inside a Caribbean cave, paleontologists have uncovered a scene that reads like gothic natural history: tiny bees once ...

Deep inside a fossil-filled cave in the Dominican Republic, researchers uncovered evidence of an unexpected interaction between ancient owls and solitary bees. About 20,000 years ago, a family of owls ...