Habitat loss, pesticide contamination, disease spillover from domesticated bee colonies, and other threats combine to accelerate the species’ decline. The Center petitioned to protect the American ...

According to Hung, creating a new bee subgenus is rare in recent decades and even more uncommon when a new species is discovered. Typically, new subgenera are created due to rearrangement.

In the race to build out AI infrastructure, Meta met an unlikely roadblock in one case: bees. A rare species of the insect threw a wrench in the company's plans for an AI data center, the ...

According to the University of Oklahoma, the new mining bee species is part of the Andrena genus, fittingly named the Andrena androfovea. Assistant biology professor James Hung and his co-author ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity has sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to make decisions on protecting four imperiled bee species under the Endangered Species Act.

Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions There are over 250 species of bee in the UK, of which 178 species have been recorded in Wales. The majority of these are solitary bees, but some ...

The hoary bat, golden borer moth and wild lupine are now listed under the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act. They’re among 22 animals and plants that were newly named to the list following an ...