Just a few decades ago, bee enthusiasts across much of North America could count on spotting one of the continent’s most common bumblebee species buzzing from flower to flower. Today, the American ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In a time of unprecedented species extinction, when seemingly every day brings news of yet another animal or plant on the precipice of population collapse, ...

Without federal protection, a bumblebee native to the Northeast may soon disappear from farms and gardens — and the consequences could be dire, a conservation group warns. Defenders of Wildlife has ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided to list a bumblebee found only in Northern California and Southern Oregon as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. Franklin’s bumblebee hasn’t ...

Mason Lee, senior project coordinator of the Biodiversity Institute, holds up a bumble bee in a tube during last year’s Bumble Bee Atlas training. This year’s training is scheduled Sunday, June 1, ...

Bumblebees in Montana face an uncertain future, according to a new statewide project seeking volunteers to help research at-risk bumblebee species within the state. The Montana Bumble Bee Atlas, ...

A study using 10 years of citizen science data from the Bumblebee Conservation Trust’s BeeWalk scheme has found that a variety of targeted conservation approaches are needed to protect UK bumblebee ...

HELP SOME OF IOWA’S SMALLEST BUT MOST IMPORTANT RESIDENTS TALK ABOUT THE BUMBLEBEE ATLAS. IS JENNY PUGA, A CONSERVATION BIOLOGIST WITH THE XERCES SOCIETY FOR INVERTEBRATE CONSERVATION. THANKS FOR ...

A RARE critically endangered bumblebee has been given a 'lifeline' thanks to a team of volunteers. Employees from Leonardo in Yeovil, the Home of British Helicopters, visited Ham Hill this month to ...

Bumblebee experts in England are celebrating a rise in the population of one of the country's rarest bumblebees. The Bumblebee Conservation Trust has recorded sightings of the shrill carder bee for at ...