Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NORMAN, Okla. (KFOR) – A new species of bee has been discovered in Oklahoma and Texas, according to the University of Oklahoma.

A rare bee species’s nest has been spotted in Iowa for the first time since its listing as federally endangered in 2017. The bombus affinis bee nest, more commonly known as the rusty patched bumblebee ...

When it comes to bees, most people think of the honeybee or maybe a bumblebee, but bees are an incredibly diverse group of insects. With over 20,000 species described around the world, that number has ...

A photo of a bumblebee found near Kalamazoo, Michigan, was used to confirm the presence of a species rarely seen in recent decades. The photo of the rusty patched bumblebee was reported to iNaturalist ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- The rusty patched bumblebee on Tuesday became the first officially endangered bee species in the continental U.S., overcoming objections from some business interests and a last ...

The United States has an amazing and diverse array of native bees. Across the country live about 4,000 native bee species — most of which are solitary and nest in the ground — coming in nearly every ...

Spring has finally arrived in the U.S., bringing its bright spectacle of budding trees and migrating birds, along with more subtle but equally important changes—among them, the first emergence of ...

In January, Lesley Hamamoto won the prize by being the first to photograph and submit the first bumblebee of the year in the ...

The program would give long-term permits to energy companies and others if they took steps to protect bee habitat. The Fish and Wildlife Service floated a notion Thursday intended to simultaneously ...