Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The common eastern bumblebee, Bombus impatiens. (a6475/iNaturalist, CC BY-SA 4.0) The discovery that bumblebee queens could shake ...

The American bumblebee could soon be declared an endangered species, according to federal officials. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) said in a proposed rule that petitions to list the ...

This statement appeared a few years ago in Popular Science, starting off an article about drag racing. Indeed, the venerable line about scientists having proved that a bumblebee can’t fly appears ...

Shrill Carder Bumblebee. Bombus sylvarum, the shrill carder bee or knapweed carder bee, collecting nectar from a flower. wls It's being called the unnoticed apocalypse: The number of insects is ...

A new study in the journal PLOS Biology finds that these humble insects can actually learn to solve puzzles from one another, suggesting that even some invertebrates like these social insects have a ...

Oklahoma's Senate will discuss a bill on Monday that proposes designating several insects as official state symbols, including the European honeybee and the American bumblebee.