Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that an insect—the bumblebee Bombus terrestris—can decide where to forage for food based on different durations of visual ...

UC Davis entomologist Robbin Thorp monitored populations of Franklin's bumble bee (Bombus franklini) until his death in 2019. The bee, found only in a limited area on the border of California and ...

Bee populations around the world have been slipping for decades, even in areas with meadows. Across the United States, managed hives have dropped from about five million in the 1940s to 2.7 million in ...

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May 20 th is World Bee Day, established by the UN in 2017 to bring attention to the importance of bee pollination for our food supply, and the concern that many bees are experiencing population ...

A Russian attack helicopter was downed by a Ukrainian drone, according to Kyiv's military. Ukraine's Special Operations Forces said it had successfully targeted the Russian Ka-52 "Alligator" ...

Bumblebee numbers in Great Britain declined by almost a quarter in 2024 compared with the 2010-23 average, making it the worst year for the genus Bombus since records began, according to the latest ...

Germany has concluded its colorful series of €5 coins dubbed the “Wonderful Word of Insects” with a coin depicting the rock bumblebee. The 2024 coin is the ninth and final release in the series issued ...

Heat waves don’t just make bumblebees hot. The high temperatures also seem to drastically reduce their sense of smell — with possible negative effects on the survival of colonies. As climate change is ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will soon decide whether to add several bumblebees to the federal endangered species list. Among them is the western bumblebee — Bombus occidentalis — a species that ...

Bumblebees can teach each other how to solve a puzzle box, and they prefer the method their sisters teach them rather than those they learn on their own. This adds to evidence that these insects are ...

A bumblebee is a fish under California law, a California court said in a ruling this week. And thus, the bumblebee should be protected by the state’s endangered species ordinances, court documents ...