The western bumble bee, once common in Washington State, is now facing a significant population decline due to disease and ...

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

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 ...

While most people picture the beloved honeybee when they think about bees, North America actually has 4,000 species of native ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our community in a variety of ways, including 4-H, farm advisers, and ...

They’re about 3/4 to 1 inch long with shiny abdomens, not fuzzy back ends like bumble bees. They may look intimidating, but they’re docile bees who are more interested in going about their own bee ...

They are distinguished from bumble bees by their shiny, hairless abdomens and smoky wings. One species, our valley carpenter bee male, is a beautiful fuzzy golden colored bee with green eyes known as ...

Four Bees, One Future: Why Saving California's Bumble Bees Matters to Us All On a warm spring day in California's Central Valley, a small bumble bee lands on a purple lupine blossom. With its fuzzy ...

Humans may not be the only species that struggles to eat the right amounts of the ideal foods. A new study led by researchers ...

U.S. canned tuna producer Bumble Bee Foods has asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that it knowingly benefited from its suppliers’ use of forced labor by Indonesian workers. Earlier this ...