But, not so for bumblebees, where the queen is larger but otherwise physically indistinguishable from her workers. In a study ...

Bumblebee enthusiast Lesley Hamamoto of Sacramento, a UC Davis alumna who remembers well the entomology class she took from ...

The American Bumble Bee, Bombus pensylvanicus, is one of the most common bumble bee species found on the Front Range and is one of the 24 species found in Colorado 1. This species is found only in the ...

Bumble bee enthusiast Lesley Hamamoto of Sacramento, and a UC Davis alumna who remembers well the entomology class she took ...

Who will find and photograph the first bumblebee of the year? The sixth annual Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble Bee-of-the-Year Contest will begin at 12:01 a.m., Jan. 1, 2026. The first person to ...

Queen and worker Bombus terrestris have different optima for the timing of gyne production. Workers, being more related to their gyne-sisters than to their sons, should ascertain that gyne production ...

Bombus Auricomus, otherwise known as the black-and-gold bumblebee. An insect that hadn’t been seen in Connecticut for a century has been popping up again. It’s called the black-and-gold bumblebee.

When pollen is scarce, bumble bees will nibble on the leaves of plants that lack flowers thereby damaging them, which compels the plants to bloom two to four weeks earlier A buff-tailed bumble bee ...