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 ...

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

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

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

A detailed, high-resolution map of the rusty patched bumble bee's genome has been released by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

(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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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