“The dramatic decline of Suckley’s cuckoo bumblebee is a telltale sign that the western bumblebee community as a whole is in urgent need of our help,” Cornelisse said. “By protecting the bee under ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is asking for public input on a new rule to list the Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee as endangered. The USFWS said that the last time this bee was seen was in 2016 ...

Rare creature, a cuckoo bee, discovered in museum collection in Canada, officials said. It hadn’t been seen in 65 years, was thought extinct ...

Rare creature, a cuckoo bee, discovered in museum collection in Canada, officials said. It hadn’t been seen in 65 years, was thought extinct ...

How about some blue bees for a Blue Monday? Of the roughly 20,000 bee species known globally, cuckoo bees are some of the most lovely. Bees in the genus Thyreus are gasp-out-loud delightful with ...

Cuckoo bees sneakily lay their eggs in the nests of other bee species, after which their newly hatched prodigies kill the host egg or larva, and then feed on the stored pollen.

Cuckoo bees sneakily lay their eggs in the nests of other bee species, after which their newly hatched prodigies kill the host egg or larva, and then feed on the stored pollen.

Only two of this bee have been found since— in Connecticut in 2006 and in New York in 2014. Then in mid-July, researchers found three male Epeoloides pilosulus on black-eyed Susan flowers along ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park has a new bee. It’s a variety of cellophane-cuckoo bee called Epeolus inornatus discovered by researchers studying how the 2016 Chimney Tops II fires affected ...

The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned for Endangered Species Act protection today for the critically imperiled Suckley’s cuckoo bumblebee, which has declined by more than 90%. The rare ...