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

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 ...

A community group is appealing for people to plant more flowers in their gardens to help save a rare type of bee. Bilberry ...

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

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 ...

A wildlife camera captured a close view of a bumblebee clinging to a cluster of small pink flowers while collecting nectar in ...

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 ...

Dwindling populations of the American bumblebee and their complete disappearance from eight states has led to a call for the bee to be placed under the Endangered Species Act before they face ...

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 ...

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

Bumblebees remain active pollinators in New Jersey yards despite declining insect populations due to pesticides and ...