Mosquito bites are distressingly familiar, but what about all those other mysterious, red, itchy spots that show up in summer ...

Student researchers will be busy bees this summer as they embark on a new project to study "bee hotels" installed by Fleming College in the City of Kawartha Lakes, as ...

And the decision brought into the spotlight a small creature that for years has been retreating into Virginia’s shadows: the rusty patched bumble bee. Once a familiar sight to millions ...

Here the best seven to plant to attract more bees into your backyard. Lavender is a favorite in pollinator gardens for a good ...

And I thought, “That’s a weird-looking bumble bee.” And sure enough, it was the rusty patched bumble bee. LEXI NEWSOM: That was second-year plant biology and conservation Ph.D. student Libby ...

When FWS announced the endangered species classification for the rusty patched bumble bee, it wrote: “Before it was declared endangered in 2017, the rusty patched bumble bee experienced a widespread ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intends to designate 1.6 million acres of critical habitat for the rusty patched bumble bee in six states, including Minnesota. The rusty patched bumble bee ...

The bombus affinis bee nest, more commonly known as the rusty patched bumblebee, was found by a Johnson County Conservation official in their own backyard in Iowa City. The nest had completed its life ...

(This story was updated to correct how often the rusty patched bumble bee has been seen. It's been seen in seven states over 10 years.) The rusty patched bumble bee had only been seen in seven ...

but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says bee nests are very hard to see: the rusty patched bumblebee lives in the ground, entering its hive through a small hole in the dirt. The agency gets ...