Ivers published a paper this week in the journal Science of the Total Environment that shares results from his study on how bumble bee susceptibility to parasites is related to landscape features ...

Honey bees may play a role in increasing virus levels in wild bumble bees each spring, according to researchers at Penn State who analyzed seasonal trends of parasite and virus transmission in bees.

A common eastern bumblebee (Bombus impatiens ... alone experience the same bathroom disruptions and anti-parasite effects, while bees fed the core of sunflower pollen did not.

both reduces infection of a common bee parasite by 81 -- 94% and markedly increases the production of queen bumble bees. The research provides much-needed food for thought in one of the most ...

Most bumble bees across North America — there are about ... less than 1% have this type of social parasite behavior, Forest Service officials said in a news release. The Suckley’s cuckoo ...

Cuckoo bumblebees in the subgenus Psithyrus are brood parasites ... On the other hand, bumblebee females can sting multiple times. Both worker bees and the queen bee in a bumblebee nest can ...

Another bumble’s future is tethered to the western’s: a social parasite called Suckley’s ... Birds that eat bees and bugs — like the olive-sided flycatcher, another Northwest conservation ...

Bumble bees are crucial to agriculture, pollinating crops that make up about one-third of the food supply, including vegetables, fruits, nuts, and legumes. However, bee populations have been ...