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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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

Honey bees are more faithful to their flower patches than bumble bees when it comes to returning to collect more pollen and nectar, according to a study by U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural ...

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

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 ...