The majority of Earth's plant species, including our crop plants, rely on the services of animal pollinators in order to ...

Ann Turkenburg Scott has a colony of bumblebees nesting under a shelf in her Kamloops shed for the summer in what appears to ...

Planting native wildflowers, such as vetches – or even growing vegetables and herbs can provide food for bees. Setting up a ...

A few years ago, Adrian Carper, who is in my department and also the Museum of Natural History at the University of Colorado Boulder, told me about a species of bee that could chew nest holes into ...

Bee study: Both habitat quality and biodiversity can impact bee health Date: December 5, 2022 Source: University of Michigan Summary: Efforts to promote the future health of both wild bees and ...

A bumble bee nest only has around 50 to 500 bees, while a honey bee hive can buzz with tens of thousands. A small colony inherently has less genetic diversity. Fewer bees, fewer genes.

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 ...

The average bumblebee nest contains between 50 and 400 individual bees. That said, some nests have as few as 20 individuals, while the largest nests have up to 1,700 individual bees.

Solitary bees are a diverse group of wild bees that nest alone rather than in hives or colonies like honeybees or bumblebees ...

The rusty patched bumble bee built its nest in old and abandoned rodent holes underground, according to Johnson County Conservation. The nest was found more than 5 feet from the suspected main ...

Unfortunately, many bumblebee species are declining and at risk of becoming endangered. Threats to bumblebee populations include habitat loss, diseases, climate change, pesticides, and competition ...