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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Federal wildlife officials announced Wednesday they will consider adding 10 new species to the Endangered Species Act, including a big bumble bee that ... found in western North Carolina; the ...

For community scientists interested in helping map data about bumble bees, the University of Wyoming’s Biodiversity Institute ...