The race to spot the year’s first bumble bee will begin just after midnight on New Year’s Day, as the Bohart Museum of Entomology sponsors the sixth annual Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble ...

Bumble bees respond to physical disturbance of their nest with a sequence of defensive behaviors that lasts up to 10 minutes, according to a study by Sajedeh Sarlak at the University of Konstanz, ...

A San Diego federal judge on Wednesday declined to dismiss a lawsuit that alleged human trafficking and forced labor violations by Bumble Bee Seafoods, the San Diego-based canned tuna giant, instead ...

UC Davis entomologist Robbin Thorp monitored populations of Franklin's bumble bee (Bombus franklini) until his death in 2019. The bee, found only in a limited area on the border of California and ...

Republican leaders used sombrero and mustache memes to mock Hakeem Jeffries. Latino groups and Jeffries denounced the images as racist and disinformation. Critics urged GOP apologies and a return to ...

Environmental Communications Specialist Brett Peto contributed this story. A bumble bee queen has a lot resting on her wings. She lives for four seasons. During that time, she will survive winter, ...

You’re lunches are about to get a lot better. Bumble Bee Tuna Snackers just hit shelves, and they’re ditching the pouch packaging for single-serve, three-ounce cans. You can get a variety of ...

KALAMAZOO, MI – Scientists have discovered an extremely rare bumble bee species in Michigan for the first time in more than 25 years. Ecologists believed for years that the rusty-patched bumble bee ...

More than two dozen new and rare bee species were documented during the first year of a new Washington state project that’s designed to get a better understanding of the insects. The Washington State ...

If you’ve been out among blooming flowers lately, especially in the more outlying areas, you have probably seen the familiar black and yellow bees with large fuzzy bodies commonly known as bumblebees.