The bee was once found in roughly half of the U.S. Now, rare sightings have been limited to about a dozen states.

A rare North American bumble bee may have been on a path toward extinction long before modern human impacts, suggesting that its long-term genetic vulnerability made it especially fragile and less ...

UC Davis entomologist Robbin Thorp monitored populations of Franklin's bumble bee (Bombus franklini) until his death in 2019. The bee, found only in a limited area on the border of California and ...

Every bumble bee colony has a queen, but a new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests the process of determining which baby bee reigns supreme may be less monarchal than the royal title ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Kansas wildlife officials are asking for help from the public in tracking the whereabouts of bumble bees in ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Once found in much of the United States, wildlife officials are now seeking to add federal protections for a species of bumble bee that researchers believe is “declining at ...

The Mountain States Bumble Bee Atlas is seeking volunteers to help document bumble bees in Western Colorado to help aid ...