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 ...

Countries in South America are at risk of losing their indigenous bee populations due to the introduction of alien species to support government agricultural policy. Scientists warn urgent ...

A buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris), one of the species found in a recent study to have a diminished sense of smell after exposure to heat. Georgette Douwma via Getty Images Heat could be ...

Biological invasions are a major driver of biodiversity loss and invasive pollinators can reshape native plant-pollinator networks. A new study published in the journal NeoBiota, reveals that invasive ...

Solitary organisms can minimise fitness loss from parasitism with a facultative change to an earlier reproduction. Such a shift of the reproductive effort gives the host a chance to compensate for the ...

A foreign subspecies of bumblebee, imported as part of a billion-dollar global trade in pollinators, was found by researchers at Queen Mary’s School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences to pose a ...