Bumble bees—vital and fuzzy pollinators—face unique threats amidst global insect declines. If the insect world has a fuzzy, charismatic cutie, it’s surely the humble bumble bee.

Even professional apiarists confuse carpenter bees and bumblebees. Nevertheless, there are clues novice bee enthusiasts can rely on to help them properly identify these bees from each other. Known for ...

I never realized how fuzzy a bumble bee is until I got to hold one between my fingertips. It feels like a furry black and yellow bear, buzzing with its tiny body, wriggling with its legs.

While the carpenter and bumble bees were the most obvious visitors to the lupines, a closer look revealed a host of activity ...

Can one fuzzy anomaly beat the odds? Skip to main content. ... Bumble bee surveys over the last 100 years in the eastern U.S. and Midwest have documented the abundance of the rusty patched, ...

A bee is not just a bee when you start really looking at it. Most people know of the classic honey bee and the fuzzy, somewhat adorable bumble bee, but in Colorado alone there are more than 900 ...

By viewing almost 23,000 bumble bee-flower interactions over two years, ... Two other "bee magnet" plants in low abundance that were crawling with the fuzzy buzzers are Culver's root and wild indigo.

Fuzzy, golden teddy bears ... It’s blooming now, and it attracts lots of all kinds of bees — mainly honeybees, but also the striped bumble bees, ... I consulted my bee bible, ...

The rusty patched bumble bee, once common throughout the eastern U.S., has declined in nearly 90 percent of its former range since 2003, ... “Plus, they’re cute and fuzzy. ...

Minnesota Bumble Bee Atlas volunteer Karen Kaehler looks for bees among native plants along the shoreline of her home near ... They’re soft and fuzzy and they’re easy to get to know and ...