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

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

Bees respond to tasty treats or plain water based on context, a study that may provide support for establishing insect sentience shows ...

The bees are dying – and nine other ways hotter weather is changing the British countryside forever - IN FOCUS: As new ...

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 ...

Volunteers across Iowa conducted nearly 500 bumble bee atlas surveys in 2025, which was more than three times the number of surveys conducted the year prior.

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 Bumble Bee Atlas is looking for volunteers to net bumblebees and collect data that could help conserve the native ...

It’s a simple moment, but one that reflects a much greater effort: Alaskans working together to understand the bees 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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Unladen common eastern bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) in Ontario ...

Several species of California bumble bees have gone missing in the first statewide census of the fuzzy pollinators in 40 years. Several species of California bumble bees have gone missing in the first ...