Even professional apiarists confuse carpenter bees and bumblebees. Nevertheless, there are clues that novice bee enthusiasts can rely on to help them properly distinguish these bees from each other.

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

This 2012 photo provided by The Xerces Society shows a rusty patched bumblebee in Minnesota. The state Legislature anointed the endangered species as the new state bee.

Figure 1: DWV and N. ceranae infectivity in bumblebees. True prevalences with 95% confidence intervals were computed with the function epi.prev in the R library epiR, version 0.9-45. Overall ...