Books

Bumblebees, D.V. Alford | May 13, 2011

Bumblebee Economics: With a New Preface by Bernd Heinrich  | Nov 30, 2004

Bumble Bees of North America: An Identification Guide by Paul H. WilliamsRobbin W. Thorp, et al. | Mar 30, 2014

Bumblebees: Behaviour, Ecology, and Conservation by Dave Goulson  | Dec 13, 2009

Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee: Creating Habitat for Native Pollinators: Ontario and Great Lakes Edition by Lorraine JohnsonSheila Colla and Illustrator Ann Sanderson | June 11, 2022

A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees by Dave Goulson  | Apr 29, 2014

Links

Ask A Bumble Bee Survey (USGS), contact Jenan El-Hifnawi at bumblebeecount@gmail.com

Ask A Bumble Bee Summary Report 2021, Jenan El-Hifnawi and Sam Droege

Bumble Bee coloring template (from Lincoln Best’s Western BB ID session)

Discover Life taxonomic key to bumble bees

Discover Life keys, find “how to use”  videos here.

Franklin’s Bumble Bee, Federal Register

Hollis Woodard’s path from liberal arts to entomology, Sally Ride Science

The Humble-Bee, poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Microscopes, from Oregon Bee Project, Do I need a microscope? PDF

Oregon Bee Atlas (Lincoln Best)

Oregon State University Certified Master Melittologist program

Plants for Bumble Bees (search your region) from Xerces and LBJ Wildflowers

Poems to ID a few bumble bees, Johanna James

Pollen Specialist Bees of the Central United States, Droege and Fowler

Pollen Specialist Bees of the Eastern United States, Droege and Fowler

Pollen Specialist Bees of the Western United States, Droege and Fowler

Pollen Specialist Bees, Host Plants of the Eastern United States, Droege and Fowler

Pollination Botany and Bumble Bees Chapters, SARE Alt Pollinators guide (find full guide here)

PolliNation Podcast, Oregon State University

Rusty Patched Bumble Bee, Federal Register

Rusty Patched Bumble Bee, USFWS website

Rusty Patched Bumble Bee Recovery Plan, USFWS

Sam Droege and Clare Maffei’s how to ‘bee’ video on identifying bumble bees

Sam Droege and Clare Maffei’s how to ‘bee’ videos, full list

USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab,  (BIML) Flickr Bee images

USGS BIML Bumble Bee images

U.S. National Native Bee Monitoring (RCN)

Papers

Ask A Bumble Bee Summary Report 2021, Jenan El-Hifnawi and Sam Droege

Bumble bee colony growth and reproduction on reclaimed surface coal mines, Jessie Lanterman, Karen Goodell

Bumble bee species distributions and habitat associations in the Midwestern USA, a region of declining diversity Jessie Lanterman Novotny, Paige Reeher, Megan Varvaro, Andrew Lybbert, Jesse Smith, Randall J. Mitchell & Karen Goodell

A century of pollen foraging by the endangered rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis): Inferences from molecular sequencing of museum specimens, Michael P. SimanonokClint R. V. OttoRobert S. CornmanDeborah D. IwanowiczJames P. Strange, and Tamara A. Smith

Detecting Insect Pollinator Declines on Regional and Global Scales Gretchen Lebuhn, Sam Droege et al.

Jessie LantermanPaige ReeherRandall J. Mitchell, Karen Goodell

 

Notes from rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis Cresson) nest observations, Michelle L. Boone, Elaine Evans, Amy Wolf, Halley Minser, Jay Watson, Tamara A. Smith 10 January 2022

Pollen Limitation of Plant Reproduction: Pattern and Process, R.J. Mitchell et al.

Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees, SA Cameron, JD Lozier, JP Strange