Look up the word "bumble," and the definition may read something like "To move or act in a confused, awkward or clumsy manner." But the bumble bee, a member of the genus Bombus, is anything but clumsy ...

True prevalences with 95% confidence intervals were computed with the function epi.prev in the R library epiR, version 0.9-45. Overall prevalence for each of our parasites was calculated using ...

There are over 250 species of bumblebees. They fall in the genus Bombus and are part of Apidae, one of the bee families. The size of a bumblebee varies depending on the species and can vary even ...

Bombus occidentalis used to be the most common bumble bee species in the Pacific Northwest, but in the mid 1990s it became one of the rarest. Now, according to an article in the Journal of Insect ...

While studying genetic diversity in bumblebees in the Rocky Mountains, USA, researchers discovered a new species. They named it Bombus incognitus. While studying genetic diversity in bumblebees in the ...

Traveling the Dalton Highway in search of Bombus polaris, the Arctic bumblebee. Traveling the Dalton Highway in search of Bombus polaris, the Arctic bumblebee. DNA analysis would later show that the ...

I spotted this early honeybee on willow in Conamara on the very first week in March. Paul Dunne It seems a bit furry for a honeybee. It is more likely to be a queen buff-tailed bumble bee – Bombus ...

Bombus occidentalis used to be the most common bumble bee species in the Pacific Northwest, but in the mid 1990s it became one of the rarest. Now, according to a new article it may be making a ...