Bumble bees live in colonies with a few hundred insects that include a queen, female workers, and male bees (called drones).

Besides enduring weeks of the 17-year cicada brood cacophony in 2024, we also dealt with the itch mite invasion that followed ...

The world’s estimated 5 million species of insects are critically important to nearly every ecosystem on the planet. Among ...

We're working hard to protect these iconic insects. Please help us save them ... which hatches inside the bee and develops by feeding on its innards. • An American bumblebee flaps its wings about 200 ...

Butterflies and bumble bees are all the rage these days at the U.S. Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology. It's all in black and white — literally. The museum is hosting or assisting with two separate ...

Across the country live about 4,000 native bee species — most of which are solitary and nest in the ground — coming in nearly every color of the rainbow and ranging widely in size. The country harbors ...

A shrill carder bee has not been ... s rarest species of bumblebee has been spotted on a small holding in Kent, despite it being one of the worst years on record for insect recordings.

Insects are going extinct 8 times faster than mammals, birds, and reptiles Sanchez-Bayo and the other researchers behind the February 2019 study found that bee species in the UK, Denmark ...

One of the most common and best-known European bumblebee species, the rock bumblebee is featured in Germany's colorful ...

Winner: Tree bumblebee. Colonised mainland Britain in ... and wild plants is carried out by their wild relatives and other insects, especially hoverflies. Dr Gary Powney of the Centre for Ecology ...