Butterflies and bumble bees are all the rage these days at the U.S. Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology. It’s all in black and white — literally. The museum is hosting or assisting with two separate ...

Researchers examine links between flowering strips and disease in bumble bee colonies. Pollinators, which are essential to food security, are threatened by pathogens. Flowering strips and hedgerows ...

There are five social species of bumble bees (Bombus spp.) native to Florida, and each is an important pollinator throughout the state. Although European honeybees make up about 85 percent of our ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is seeking data and public comments on a petition to list the Crotch’s bumble bee, Franklin’s bumble bee, Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee and western bumble ...

One of the amusements a garden can provide is watching the birds, bees, butterflies and other critters drawn to it. Most of us have seen honeybees flying from flower to flower, sipping nectar or ...

DEAR JOAN: It is normal to have lots of bumblebees around on our property, especially when rosemary and manzanita shrubs are in bloom. What is not normal is frequently seeing dead bumble bees on ...