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New research from Penn State shows bumble bees often eat the wrong foods — a finding that challenges assumptions about bee ...
Grounded royalty: The springtime reign of the queen bumblebee If you’ve seen an unusually large, fuzzy bee zigzagging around in your garden lately, don’t panic — it’s not lost, it’s a queen on a ...
U.S. canned tuna producer Bumble Bee Foods has asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that it knowingly benefited from its suppliers’ use of forced labor by Indonesian workers. Earlier this ...
In October of 2022, Shane Baer was driving on the I-17 in Bumble Bee when he said he was rear-ended by a truck driver. “I would say pretty much the trunk ended up at the back seat of my car.
The buzz of a bumble bee feeding at a willow catkin is a sure sign that spring has arrived to Interior Alaska. As more and more flowers unfurl to offer their nectar and pollen rewards, a dizzying ...
This summer, the Xerces Society is also expanding its Bumble Bee Atlas project—which organizes citizen scientists to gather data on local bumblebees through surveys—from 15 to 20 states.
Credit: npj Biofilms and Microbiomes (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41522-024-00632-3 A study of bumble bees has uncovered a potential reason for the insects' decline.
It was all about the bees last week for two Park Slope residents who set up a hive on the roof of a Brooklyn brownstone, home to about 12,000 fuzzy pollinators. Early Friday morning, the beekeepers — ...
Above: Bumble bees buzz pollinate crops like tomatoes when they collect pollen, which they store in a ball on their hind legs. It’s hard to deny the absolute benefits of the honey bee, but did you ...
Bumble Bee, which had a 41% U.S. market share for canned albacore when it filed for bankruptcy in 2019, is incorporated in Delaware and in 2020 was sold for nearly $1 billion to the Taiwanese tuna ...