Bumblebees have been all the buzz lately. Headlines abound about how bumblebee populations continue to decline across the world, a decline ushered in by factors such a loss of habitat due to climate ...
Bumblebees are missing from gardens after record rainfall in spring, experts have warned. The UK had the wettest spring on record, with rainfall on most days in April and May, delaying queen bees from ...
CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – The bumblebee population is on the decline in Massachusetts and several species are in danger of disappearing in the next decade if current trends continue. MassWildlife is ...
With the arrival of spring, bumblebee queens take their first wing beat of the season and set out to find new nesting sites. But they are flying earlier in the year, as a result of a warmer climate ...
MILWAUKEE - If you go for a walk from mid-April through May in an old Wisconsin forest, odds are you may have noticed diverse beds of flowers less than a foot high. These are spring ephemerals – short ...
HEAR YE, hear ye! The queens have emerged! We’re talking about bumble bees (genus Bombus). For several weeks each spring, any bumble bee you see is a queen — and she’s very hard at work. She must ...
For more than a decade, ecologists have been warning of a downward trend in bumble bee populations across North America, with habitat destruction a primary culprit in those losses. While efforts to ...