As a result of the climate crisis, global warming is driving up temperatures around the world — and bumblebees, like humans, are struggling to cope with homes that can’t beat the heat. In a new ...

Scientists have been warning for years that bumblebee populations are declining, posing a risk to the vital role that pollinators have in helping maintain food and plants across the world. New ...

Bumblebees are disappearing around the world. But so far, scientists can only speculate about what’s causing their demise, probing the effects of habitat loss, pesticides and disease. Now, new ...

The rusty patched bumblebee became the first bee to be federally listed as endangered in 2017, but researchers studying this rare and charming creature are getting help locating it from an unexpected ...

Bumblebees are on the decline. This isn't exactly a revelation, and without bees to help pollinate plants, the world will suffer. Now, though, researchers say they've found a major new factor in the ...

Rising global temperatures may be making bumblebee nests too hot for them to survive. The global bumblebee population has declined since the 1950s, sparking speculation on the causes – researchers ...

Cornell researchers recently observed a novel ‘outhouse’ structure in Arctic bumble bee nests that could mitigate the spread of fecal-borne disease within bee colonies. The outhouse is a small and ...

A: The phenomenon of seeing the wax from an outdoor bee nest (not beehive) is not unknown, but it is certainly unusual. It is what’s left after a swarm of bees, led by a queen, can’t find a sheltered ...