A new study shows that bumble bee queens take regular breaks from reproduction, likely to avoid burning out before their ...

Volunteers are needed to help compile what’s known as Iowa’s Bumble Bee Atlas, an effort to gauge the state’s populations of ...

For the bumble bee contest. Whoever photographs or video records the insect, and is judged the winner ... UC Davis distinguished emeritus professor Art Shapiro hosts the annual contest he launched ...

There’s an innocent bumble bee, a ladybug, even a pretty blue ... A photo posted by on While the insect nail art is undoubtedly the primary focus here, the backdrop on which they’ve been ...

The buzz of a bumble bee feeding at a willow catkin is a sure ... a dizzying diversity of insects will converge in our gardens, along roadsides, and in meadows and forests. As they forage between ...

27—The results are in for a pair of UC Davis insect ... drawers of bumble bee specimens. Meanwhile, as he has done in the past, UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus Art Shapiro won his ...

Even without any survival incentive, bumble ... bee colonies housed in a container that mimicked their natural nesting environment. To avoid distressing the bees, the researchers handled the ...

A recent study revealed clues about how the chemical compound affects bee ... in bumble bees. The scientists suspected that this hormone is important to the way carbon dioxide could affect insects ...