Scientists have identified the red-tailed bumblebee as the main host of acute bee paralysis virus, a disease lethal to honeybees. The discovery challenges previous assumptions that honeybees were the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — A rare bee species was spotted in Syracuse for the first time at a SUNY College of Environmental ...

When it comes to bees, most people think of the honeybee or maybe a bumblebee, but bees are an incredibly diverse group of insects. With over 20,000 species described around the world, that number has ...

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 photo of a bumblebee found near Kalamazoo, Michigan, was used to confirm the presence of a species rarely seen in recent decades. The photo of the rusty patched bumblebee was reported to iNaturalist ...

The United States has an amazing and diverse array of native bees. Across the country live about 4,000 native bee species — most of which are solitary and nest in the ground — coming in nearly every ...

A Cornell technician collected some in a jar during a walk and brought them to her boss. What they found was historic.

A new volunteer-based team is seeking out information on what bees exist in Washington, revealing hundreds of species in the ...