A new study seeks to challenge the conventional view of a honey bee colony. Viewing colonies as superorganisms redefines the ...

Every year on May 20, the world celebrates World Bee Day, a global call to recognize the vital role bees and other pollinators play in keeping our ecosystems alive and our plates full. This year’s ...

Bee U NYC is teaching young New Yorkers that protecting pollinators also means protecting biodiversity, food systems, and our ...

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 ...

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 ...

Increasing summer temperatures, drought, disease, land use changes and insecticides have all been blamed for the precipitous ...

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