If you’ve been out among blooming flowers lately, especially in the more outlying areas, you have probably seen the familiar ...

The aromatic fields of lavender bursting into full-on purple bloom at Hope Hill Lavender Farm owe their vibrant display to ...

What do you see in this photo? A bumble bee. A small brown spider. White flowers. Look closely: There's a large crab spider ...

Humans may not be the only species that struggles to eat the right amounts of the ideal foods. A new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests that what bumble bees choose to eat may not line up ...

All, with the exception of the alkali bee, can be found in our local backyards. Bumble bees belong to a large family of bees called Apidae.

Some queens don't rule nonstop. A new study from the University of California, Riverside shows that even bumble bee queens, the sole founders of their colonies, take regular breaks from ...

U.S. canned tuna producer Bumble Bee Foods has asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that it knowingly benefited from its suppliers’ use of forced labor by Indonesian workers. Earlier this ...

For community scientists interested in helping map data about bumble bees, the University of Wyoming’s Biodiversity Institute is sponsoring a Mountain States Bumble Bee Atlas training for 1-4 p ...

For community scientists interested in helping map data about bumble bees, the University of Wyoming’s Biodiversity Institute is sponsoring a Mountain States Bumble Bee Atlas training Sunday, June 1, ...

The buzz of a bumble bee feeding at a willow catkin is a sure sign that spring has arrived to Interior Alaska. As more and more flowers unfurl to offer their nectar and pollen rewards, a dizzying ...