And I went to a shaded spot under a tree and saw one bumble bee. And I thought, “That’s a weird-looking bumble bee.” And sure enough, it was the rusty patched bumble bee.

CHANG: Leif takes a closer look and determines this is a male bumblebee, which means it doesn't have a stinger. So he reaches into the vial, pinches the bee with his fingers and offers it to me.

A plant expert is calling on people to help protect pollinators by making gardens more bee-friendly. Kathryn Crouch, plant ...

Most bumble bees are solitary, though, meaning they don’t build hives, but they do more than their share of plant pollination. The threats the bumblebee face are three-pronged: loss of habitat ...

There are between 300 and 400 types of bees living in Iowa, but she says this survey will only focus on the state’s 14 species of bumble bees. “They’re fairly easy to distinguish from other ...