To stay in the air when hovering over a flower, bumble bees continually flap their wings rapidly, a metabolic process that ...

I never realized how fuzzy a bumble bee is until I got to hold one between my fingertips. It feels like a furry black and yellow bear, buzzing with its tiny body, wriggling with its legs. The ...

The personal backstory to 20 of the most exciting research projects that the author has been part of during his 50 years of ...

A new study has identified the bee's knees of bumble bee dietary options in Ohio and the Upper Midwest. By viewing almost 23,000 bumble bee-flower interactions over two years, researchers found that ...

Honey bees are more faithful to their flower patches than bumble bees when it comes to returning to collect more pollen and nectar, according to a study by U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural ...

California photographer and conservationist Krystle Hickman is on a quest to document hundreds of species of native bees, ...