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Does urbanisation drive bumblebee evolution? A new study by Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig ...

The red-tailed bumblebee visiting a garden plant in the United Kingdom. Rapid, human-caused climate change is leading to conditions such species cannot tolerate in warm areas and rapid declines from ...

Queens awake in early spring. Using short but sturdy legs, a queen bumblebee wiggles her way out of warming soil. With hibernation done at long last, it’s time to find some food. Looking around with ...

Researchers have shown that returning foragers of buff-tailed bumblebees use their own passively laid out scent marks, as well as visual information from landmarks, to find their way back to the nest ...