A buff-tailed bumble bee (Bombus terrestris) covered in pollen. (Credit: P7r7 / Creative Commons ... More 3.0) P7r7 via a Creative Commons license.

In short, he argues that the North American bees acquired a selectively virulent strain of Nosema bombi, a gut pathogen, while being reared alongside the European bumble bee Bombus terrestris.

Ongoing research into the effect of environmental change on the buzzing of bees reveals that high temperatures and exposure ...

A bumble bee (Bombus terrestris) worker damaging a plant leaf. Bee-inflicted leaf damage leads to accelerated flowering and may have implications for the phenological synchrony of plants and ...

To see how iridescence may be functioning as camouflage, researchers at the University of Bristol in the UK turned to the humble bumble bee (Bombus terrestris).Bumblebees are not iridescent, nor ...

The paper, entitled 'Reproductive workers show queen-like gene expression in an intermediately eusocial insect, the buff-tailed bumble bee Bombus terrestris', which is published in the journal ...

This suggests that the damage caused by heatwaves could have long-lasting effects on bumble bee populations. The wild-sourced Bombus pascuorum was particularly affected, showing less resilience ...

The black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, is usually the first bumble bee to emerge in this area, Thorp used to say. It forages on manzanitas, wild lilacs, wild buckwheats, lupines ...

We are out in the wilds of far western Malibu, in the home range of a native bee called Crotch's Bumble Bee, or Bombus crotchii. That bee is protected by state law, and it's one of the many ...

The American Bumble Bee, Bombus pensylvanicus, is one of the most common bumble bee species found on the Front Range and is one of the 24 species found in Colorado. This species is found only in the ...