APPANOOSE COUNTY, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - Volunteers across Iowa conducted nearly 500 bumble bee atlas surveys in 2025, which was more than three times the number of surveys conducted the year ...

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) published its final rule designating critical habitat for the endangered rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) on June 1, 2026. The rule designates more ...

Increasing summer temperatures, drought, disease, land use changes and insecticides have all been blamed for the precipitous ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners! Thank goodness for the recent rains we have received. Many areas in the Valley are still very dry. Many livestock farmers are feeding hay but pastures will ...

Rusty patched bumble bees lost 87% of their population over the last couple of decades nationwide — their local populations here in Evanston declined as well. Scientists and residents in the greater ...

Many plants conceal their pollen, requiring pollinators to use specialized methods, such as acoustic resonance pollen ejection, to achieve pollination. Pollinators with such capabilities are mainly ...

Xerces Society biologist Molly Martin holds a western bumblebee, with its distinctive white tail, in a glass vial in Washington's Wenatchee Mountains on July 19, 2025. One of the Northwest’s most ...

After bringing queen Phoebee home, Gilly McArthur expected her to die within a day or two, but she’s bumbling on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The tricolor bumble bee, pictured, is one of 13 species identified by volunteers in the Iowa Bumble Bee Atlas. (Photo by Megan ...

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