A foreign subspecies of bumblebee, imported as part of a billion-dollar global trade in pollinators, was found by researchers at Queen Mary’s School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences to pose a ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday signed a law designating the black and gold bumblebee as the Illinois State Bee. The new Illinois State Bee serves as a key pollinator in the state's prairies, ...

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While much is known about the remarkable ways that bees pollinate plants and find their way from flower to flower, fewer people know the intricacies of how bees mate. Each bee species mate in a ...

Something quietly extraordinary is happening in the wildflower meadows and garden hedgerows of Britain and beyond. Scientists are peeling back the surface of pollinator ecology and finding a hidden ...

I spotted this early honeybee on willow in Conamara on the very first week in March. Paul Dunne It seems a bit furry for a honeybee. It is more likely to be a queen buff-tailed bumble bee – Bombus ...

Though intensive farming has ravaged its habitat, could sensitive planting at energy sites aid the species’ revival? November is when bumblebees disappear for the winter. One of the most common of the ...

A telltale hint was on the bee’s knees. An analysis of 127 fossil flowers, flower buds and bees from central Germany revealed pollen particles that precisely matched ancient flowers to their ...

Over the past several decades the lives of the domesticated and native pollinators have increasingly overlapped Jude Isabella, bioGraphic Bumblebees are lovable, adorable and admirably occupied. They ...

Among the blooming perennials of late summer is one that guards its secrets closely. The lockbox blossoms of white turtlehead (Chelone glabra), a native plant in the plantain family, are an ideal ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. A state-protected bumblebee is at the ...