The BeeMachine app identifies a bee visiting a suburban flower garden in Lawrence as a two-spotted bumblebee. The app uses artificial intelligence to distinguish among species, some of which are very ...

Why does that bee look strange? Well, because it might not be a bee! Learn about bee flies, the mimics you didn't know were ...

Idaho master melittologist program volunteers Sarah Correll and Kris Ablin-Stone participate in microscope training at the College of Idaho in Caldwell April 5. (Brad Carlson/Capital Press) A ...

Volunteers with Idaho’s new master melittologist program train at Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge near Nampa on Sept. 12. Cataloging Idaho bees will benefit crops and the ecosystem, according to ...

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The study focused on the Franklin bumble bee, once found only in parts of Oregon and California and last seen alive in 2006.

Check out this happy bee feeding on nectar and covered in pollen, then read about why pollen is so vital for bees and plants.

Entomologists in Washington are starting the world's first bee sperm bank. June 15, 2013 — -- Although the mating ritual of the queen bee has been finely tuned by Mother Nature, it may not be ...

A rare North American bumble bee may have been on a path toward extinction long before modern human impacts, suggesting that ...