Bumblebees help keep our plant ecosystems happy and healthy with their powerful pollination skills. Learn 15 interesting facts about bumblebees.

A rusty patched bumblebee collects pollen and nectar from a flower. (Image credit: Dan Mullen, via Flickr, Creative Commons license) Bumblebees are large, fuzzy insects with short, stubby wings.

Bumblebees get their name from the word bumble, which means to buzz, hum, or move about awkwardly or indistinctly. All 250 extant bumblebee species belong to the genus Bombus, from the Latin word ...

Here are 15 compact facts we learned about bumblebees from Goulson’s adventures in bee research. 1. The world’s largest bumblebee is the Bombus dahlbomii of South America.

There are more than 250 bumblebee species worldwide, and in the U.S. alone, there are 49 species of bumblebees. In recent years, two species have gone extinct, according to the U.S. Forest Service.

Bumblebee queens might have no ill effects after emerging from hibernation in soil with pesticides, but later could struggle to forage for food once they start their colonies, for example.