This summer, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is calling on volunteers to participate in a statewide bumblebee ...

Iowa volunteers have identified 13 bumble bee species through a national survey, with officials encouraging more participants ...

A photo of a bumblebee found near Kalamazoo, Michigan, was used to confirm the presence of a species rarely seen in recent decades. The photo of the rusty patched bumblebee was reported to iNaturalist ...

If you see a bumblebee buzzing around our region’s early-blooming flowers, it’s a queen. Roused by warming temperatures, she ...

The Bumble Bee Atlas project is active across 21 states and trains volunteers to survey, photograph, and report bumblebee ...

Iowa DNR looking for volunteers to help with bumblebee survey ...

A rare bee species’s nest has been spotted in Iowa for the first time since its listing as federally endangered in 2017. The bombus affinis bee nest, more commonly known as the rusty patched bumblebee ...

In 2021, scientists in Guelph, Ontario set out to accomplish something that had never been done before: open a lab specifically designed for raising bumble bees in captivity. Now, three years later, ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is looking for volunteers to assist with bee-counting surveys in an effort to ...

A new volunteer-based team is seeking out information on what bees exist in Washington, revealing hundreds of species in the state.

The United States has an amazing and diverse array of native bees. Across the country live about 4,000 native bee species — most of which are solitary and nest in the ground — coming in nearly every ...