described the bee as, "a large black wasp-like insect, with immense jaws like a stag-beetle". The discovery, in the Indonesian islands known as the North Moluccas, raises hopes that the region's ...

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

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intends to designate 1.6 million acres of critical habitat for the rusty patched bumble bee in six states, including Minnesota. The rusty patched bumble bee ...

In Illinois, where the bee once represented 1 in 4 bumblebee sightings, it has disappeared from the northern part of the state and, overall, is down an estimated 74% since 2004. First described before ...

Over the past 20 years, it has disappeared or become very rare in 16 states; overall, observations of the bee have declined by nearly ... decision on whether to protect the bumblebee. American ...