Dolan is coordinator of the Mountain States Bumble Bee Atlas, a program administered by science-based nonprofit organization ...

Information gathered by volunteers goes into a database that helps researchers, state and federal agencies, and policymakers ...

Mason Lee, senior project coordinator of the Biodiversity Institute, holds up a bumble bee in a tube during last year’s Bumble Bee Atlas training. This year’s training is scheduled Sunday, June 1, ...

HELP SOME OF IOWA’S SMALLEST BUT MOST IMPORTANT RESIDENTS TALK ABOUT THE BUMBLEBEE ATLAS. IS JENNY PUGA, A CONSERVATION BIOLOGIST WITH THE XERCES SOCIETY FOR INVERTEBRATE CONSERVATION. THANKS FOR ...

Kansas needs help documenting bumble bees to develop a catalogue of their habitats, foraging and population across three ...

The Mountain States Bumble Bee Atlas is seeking volunteers to help document bumble bees in Western Colorado to help aid ...

Bumble bees (genus Bombus) are keystone pollinators in temperate, alpine and sub-arctic ecosystems, underpinning both wild plant reproduction and agricultural productivity. Their annual lifecycle—from ...

Citizen-scientists gathered in a wildflower meadow in the Washington Cascades in July to help the western bumblebee keep buzzing through the air. Nearly a mile high in the Wenatchee Mountains, the ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In a time of unprecedented species extinction, when seemingly every day brings news of yet another animal or plant on the precipice of population collapse, ...

Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee may be classified as endangered under the Endangered Species Act after a recommendation from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This social parasite is native to 15 states ...

For community scientists interested in helping map data about bumble bees, the University of Wyoming’s Biodiversity Institute is sponsoring a Mountain States Bumble Bee Atlas training for 1-4 p.m. on ...