The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is one of my favorite musicals, so it didn’t take much to convince me to take a ...

These parasitic beetle larvae lure in bees with complex floral aromas before hitching a ride back to their nests and eating ...

Originally made famous by LaVern Baker in the mid-1950s, Ruby James reclaims the song “Bumble Bee” with grit, groove and modern swagger, transforming a vintage rhythm-and-blues burner into ...

The race to spot the year’s first bumble bee will begin just after midnight on New Year’s Day, as the Bohart Museum of Entomology sponsors the sixth annual Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble ...

Bumble bees battling invasive Argentine ants may win individual fights but ultimately lose valuable foraging time, putting pressure on colonies already strained by habitat loss, disease, and ...

Prospective buyers inspect the quality of frozen tuna fish before the first auction of the year at Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 2018. A 892-pound bluefin tuna has been sold for $320,000 in ...

Bees are well-known to be sentient individuals with very active minds who display rich cognitive and emotional lives. What has never before been shown is that bumble bees, who play with balls and seem ...

UC Davis entomologist Robbin Thorp monitored populations of Franklin's bumble bee (Bombus franklini) until his death in 2019. The bee, found only in a limited area on the border of California and ...

UC Davis Distinguished Emeritus Professor Robbin Thorp at his office computer on May 15, 2007. His image of Franklin's bumble bee that he took on May 7, 1998 in Jackson County, Oregon, appears on his ...

Newlyweds traveling through the Arizona desert were supposed to be celebrating the happiest time of their lives. Instead, their honeymoon ended in tragedy when they stopped their car along Bumble Bee ...

Environmental Communications Specialist Brett Peto contributed this story. A bumble bee queen has a lot resting on her wings. She lives for four seasons. During that time, she will survive winter, ...