As World Bee Day approaches on 20 May, offering a timely reminder of pollinators' vital role in food security, biodiversity, and ecosystem health, many might find themselves pondering the intricate ...

What renders a city garden attractive to insects such as solitary bees, bumblebees and hoverflies? And how well do they ...

Scientists from Trinity and Technical University of Denmark have developed a new radar-based technique that could address a ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will soon decide whether to add several bumblebees to the federal endangered species list. Among them is the western bumblebee — Bombus occidentalis — a species that ...

Garden bees are tremendously important pollinators of plants, commercial crops, and native vegetation. There are over 4,000 ...

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 ...