The rusty patched bumblebee on Tuesday became the first officially endangered bee species in the continental U.S., overcoming objections from some business interests and a last-minute delay ...

The researchers used the Bumble Bees of North America database to obtain records of bumblebee species in Ontario and Quebec dating back to the late-1800s.

TRAVERSE CITY, MICH.—The rusty patched bumblebee on Tuesday became the first officially endangered bee species in the continental U.S., overcoming objections from some business interests and a ...

About one-third of all bumblebee species are in decline worldwide as they face a vast amount of threats. However, the common eastern bumblebee is doing "relatively well" by comparison, she noted.

The rare bee has only been seen in fragmented populations in a few areas of the UK in recent years.

But some species of native bees are in trouble. Take the rusty-patched bumblebee, for example. As recently as the 1980s, it was abundant in southern Ontario — one of the most common bumblebee species ...

Many wild bee species, though, are having a rough go of it, from factors including climate change and introduced diseases from honeybees, bumblebees and leafcutter bees used in agriculture.

Species including the Rusty-patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis) — a species that is important to crop pollination but facing extinction across North America — and the Half-black bumblebee ...

For her experiment, Dr. Rondeau received a shipment of 300 hibernating common eastern bumblebee queens, the most plentiful species in eastern North America.

In the UK, the short-haired bumblebee (Bombus subterraneus) was declared extinct in 2000, but collaboration between the RSPB and Bumblebee Conservation Trust helped reintroduce the species to ...

Here, a blue mining bee explores California buckwheat blossom. This species was only recently discovered in Texas and Oklahoma. ©JKehoe_Photos via Flickr CC / CC BY-ND 2.0 – Original / License ...

We examined the relationship between climate and bumblebee spring emergence using records from museum collections across North America. After studying 17,000 individual bees across 21 species, we ...