The rusty patched bumble bee had only been seen in seven states over the last 10 years. That was until a Johnson County Conservation staff member noticed groups of bees exiting and entering a small ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) -While honey bees nest in trees and bumble bees nest in the ground, carpenter bees nest in wood. Most carpenter bees spend their time around dead wood. They get their name from ...

Kyle Price, a field biologist (left) and Robert Jean, senior entomologist, both with Environmental Solutions & Innovations, study some of the soil excavated from an Iowa City yard while the pair were ...

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 ...

An Iowa City resident discovered the first rusty patch bumble bee nest in the state since the species was listed as endangered in 2017. In August, Michelle Wiegand, an education specialist at Johnson ...

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 ...

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 ...

From fundamental biological units as tiny as genes to complex societies, ecological systems rely on cooperation. All manner ...

(This story was updated to correct how often the rusty patched bumble bee has been seen. It's been seen in seven states over 10 years.) The rusty patched bumble bee had only been seen in seven states ...