Even professional apiarists confuse carpenter bees and bumblebees. Nevertheless, there are clues novice bee enthusiasts can ...

Bumble bees live in colonies with a few hundred insects that include a queen, female workers, and male bees (called drones). The queen bee is the only one that can lay eggs and it’s up to the ...

While the carpenter and bumble bees were the most obvious visitors to the lupines, a closer look revealed a host of activity ...

Bumble Bee is one of the oldest canned seafood companies in the US and holds the country’s largest market share for canned and pouched tuna, according to the Seafood Stewardship Index.

An unusual and parasitic bee might soon appear as the newest addition to the endangered species list. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed this week to add the Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee ...

Foothills Land Conservancy is hosting its annual survey of bumble bee populations in our area as part of the SE Bumble Bee ...

The bumble bee queens are typically twice as large as workers or males. A female bumble bee has a pointed abdomen with a stinger. Males do not have a stinger and the tip of the abdomen is rounded.

I love smelling flowers. I’m sure there are oodles and oodles of articles and scientific journals describing in great detail the smell of this flower and the fragrance of that ...

Penn State scientists uncover how parent genes compete to decide if a honey bee larva becomes a queen or a worker.

When a bumble bee emerges from torpor, it repeatedly rubs its arms over its head and flexes its abdomen. It’s a half-stretch, half-dance move that warms the bee up and out of the state of decreased ...

Bumble Bee is one of the oldest canned seafood companies in the US and holds the country’s largest market share for canned and pouched tuna, according to the Seafood Stewardship Index.