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, ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Kansas wildlife officials are asking for help from the public in tracking the whereabouts of bumble bees in the Sunflower State. Laura Clawson with the Kansas Department of Wildlife ...

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 ...

Volunteers are needed to help compile what’s known as Iowa’s Bumble Bee Atlas, an effort to gauge the state’s populations of the vital pollinators. Stephanie Shepherd, a wildlife diversity biologist ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (WOWT) - The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is looking for volunteers to assist with bee-counting surveys in an effort to support the nationwide Bumble Bee Atlas project. Iowa ...

Study Finds Bumblebees Can Solve Complex Problems Without Training ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, bumblebees have been shown to possess a previously unseen level of cognitive sophistication. A new study, published in Nature, reveals that these fuzzy pollinators can ...

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 ...