supervises a redwood block bee house in the Haven. “It’s really fun to see the bees come and go,” Casey said. Plants like the western redbud, California wild rose and lamb’s ear can be grown around ...

This community science project, run by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and supported by the Bureau of Land ...

The Suckley’s cuckoo is also particular about its targets, usually only going after the existing nests of Western bumble bees (Bombus occidentalis), Hatfield said. Western bumble bees ...

Their rapid decline since the ’90s is attributed to habitat loss, climate change and a pathogen spread by commercial bees ... Another bumble’s future is tethered to the western’s: a social ...

You can find her on Twitter @Michelle_Gamage. Increasing heat is a key factor impacting the western bumble bee. Warm winter temperatures can pull a queen bee out of hibernation faster, starving ...

These include the Crotch Bumble Bee, Franklin Bumble Bee, Suckle Cuckoo Bumble Bee, and the Western Bumble Bee. "When the California Wildlife and Game Commission advanced these species to ...

The Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee has a unique life cycle. Like cuckoo birds, they lay their eggs in the nests of other species instead of rearing their own young.

Long-term, rising summer temperatures are "particularly alarming" to the Western bumble bee, Bombus occidentalis, according to the UC Davis research paper. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey ...

Gardens can compensate for habitat loss by providing food (flowers!) for bees. Her lab documented the endangered Western bumble bee visiting lavender in a garden (photo upper left). Related plants in ...

Results of a study that was released in January in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences show that western bumble bee numbers are on a steep decline in Colorado. According to the ...