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 ...

Bumble bees respond to physical disturbance of their nest with a sequence of defensive behaviors that lasts up to 10 minutes, ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Probably the only time you have honey bees on your mind is when one of them is either trapped in your car or worse, if you’ve been stung. Shane Whited constantly has hives on ...

Hordes of bees have been flocking to planters, trash bins and even bicycles around Midtown Manhattan this season, according to multiple social media posts and videos capturing the “biblical” swarms.

A rare bee species called the diadasia nitidifrons collected by a Washington Bee Atlas volunteer in Yakima County. This bee was last documented in Washington in 1919. Courtesy Washington Bee Atlas / ...

High heat and heavy metals dampen a bumblebee’s trademark buzz, threatening pollen release and colony chatter. Tiny sensors captured up-to-400-hertz tremors that falter under environmental stress, ...

Clay Bolt and Shane trace the decline of wild bees — and fight to bring them back. Wild bees like the rusty-patched bumble bee are vanishing — but not without a fight. Conservation photographer Clay ...

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