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 ...

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.

Students from Lincoln Junior High School in Naperville, Illinois, successfully advocated for the designation of the black and gold bumblebee as the state's official bee through a yearlong effort, ...

The bee was once found in roughly half of the U.S. Now, rare sightings have been limited to about a dozen states.

On a still June morning in Interior Alaska, a bumblebee clings to a wild rose petal, waiting for the sun to warm the air ...

Bumble bees astonished researchers by inventing a new way to reach a hidden reward, despite never being taught the trick. The ...

In the first long-term, community-level field study of wild bumble bee nutrition, a team of ecologists led by Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden discovered that wild bees aren't ...

Scientists at Macquarie University in Australia and Southern Medical University in China have discovered that bumblebees show ...

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

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 ...