This is great news for these critically imperiled bees,” said Jess Tyler, a staff scientist at the Center and author of the 2020 petition that sought federal protection for the species. “Protecting ...

Scientists have discovered 15 new species of cuckoo bees hidden in North American museum collections and in an ancient thesis. Like their avian counterparts, cuckoo bees lay their eggs in the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is asking for public input on a new rule to list the Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee as endangered. The USFWS said that the last time this bee was seen was in 2016 ...

“Cuckoo” bumblebees are social parasites that take over the nests of other bumblebees by subduing the resident queen and making the worker bees feed and care for their own young. In doing so, cuckoo ...

I have been photographing bumble bees this summer and came across a variety of them such as the red belted, tri-colored, lemon cuckoo and brown belted. On Aug. 5, I happened to photograph one of ...