Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday signed a law designating the black and gold bumblebee as the Illinois State Bee.

Alaska is home to more than a hundred species of native bees, from familiar bumblebees to tiny solitary bees that nest in the ground or in hollow stems. These insects pollinate wi ...

Farmers rely on a widely used pesticide to shield corn and soybean crops from destructive insects, but new research suggests ...

The state of Illinois has chosen its official state bird, fish and a host of other creatures, and now the state has an ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is looking for more volunteers to help answer a question scientists have been trying ...

A rare North American bumble bee may have been on a path toward extinction long before modern human impacts, suggesting that its long-term genetic vulnerability made it especially fragile and less ...

(NEXSTAR) — The rusty patched bumble bee was once found in roughly half the U.S., from Maine down south to Georgia and as far west as the Dakotas. Today, only about a dozen states have recorded ...

A new study has identified the bee's knees of bumble bee dietary options in Ohio and the Upper Midwest. By viewing almost 23,000 bumble bee-flower interactions over two years, researchers found that ...

Some of California’s most crucial insects seem to have gone missing. A new study suggests that populations of once-abundant bumble bee species in California may have experienced serious decline, after ...

Bumble bees battling invasive Argentine ants may win individual fights but ultimately lose valuable foraging time, putting pressure on colonies already strained by habitat loss, disease, and ...

UK bees face grave danger from ever increasing summer temperatures, and unwelcome pests. But one man is on a mission to save ...

Parts of Cornwall's coastline have become an important refuge for one of England's rarest bumblebees, conservationists have ...