Somewhere between 400,000 and 700,000 thousand years ago — about the time Haleakala was forming — a tiny bee arrived in the Hawaiian Islands. This bee was about the size of a grain of rice and ...

Franklin’s bumblebee is only the second bumblebee to join the U.S. endangered species list, and the first from the American West. In a rare photo, a Franklin’s bumblebee collects pollen from a lupine ...