Researchers at the University of Guelph in Canada say an “experimental oversight” during a previous study on Bombus impatiens, the common eastern bumble bee, led to “the inadvertent ...

The team then carried out an experiment involving 143 common eastern bumblebee queens and found ... queen bumblebees hibernate alone after male and worker bees die out at the end of autumn ...

A common eastern bumblebee ... waste like we do, so bumblebee poo is a thin slurry that’s often bright yellow from undigested pollen.) “It turned out that bee poop naturally fluoresces ...

Scientists at UBC are raising concern about the number of common eastern bumble bees—an introduced species ... agricultural industries that benefit quite a bit from wild bumble bee pollination. It’s ...

Common Eastern Bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) in a squash flower. Photo courtesy of Kent McFarland The first-ever comprehensive study of Vermont’s bee populations has documented 70 new species ...