When a bumble bee emerges from torpor, it repeatedly rubs its arms over its head and flexes its abdomen. It’s a half-stretch, half-dance move that warms the bee up and out of the state of decreased ...

Community science volunteers -- laypeople with an interest in bees and conservation -- significantly contribute to the scientific knowledge of native bumble bees across Canada and the United States.

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 ...