Focus: Research on commercial bumblebees and bumblebee identification. Funding: SynTax research scheme, supported by BBSRC and NERC. We are trying to isolate cryptic species in the most important ...

My interest is in the ecology of bumblebee declines. A first quantitative description in the 1980s linked regional declines of bumblebees in Britain with an interaction between, on the one hand, the ...

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WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the American bumblebee, whose populations have plummeted by nearly 90%, may warrant Endangered Species Act protection. The ...

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 ...

A keystone in an arch's crown secures the other stones in place. Keystone species play the same role in many ecological communities by maintaining the structure and integrity of the community.

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to grant Endangered Species Act protection to the critically endangered variable cuckoo bumblebee.

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It comes as no surprise that the Southern Plains bumblebee is already potentially extinct in West Texas, a region marked as one of the largest agricultural landscapes in the nation. For decades ...

Most of the roughly 250 species of bumblebee have annual life cycles, where queens start new colonies in the spring that grow throughout the summer before collectively dying out in the fall.

They looked at 180 years of literature on the species and found one common factor across all bumblebee species that they can ...

Saving Species Series 3, Episode 1 Short-Haired Bumblebee Joanna Pinnock headed to Dungeness in Kent where a long term project is underway to return the short haired bumblebee to Britain.