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

Closeup of a bumblebee on a pink flower - 49pauly/Getty Images Bees are super important — and it's not just the honeybees. While often overlooked, native bees pollinate the vast majority of flowering ...

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 ...

Honey bees may play a role in increasing virus levels in wild bumble bees each spring, according to researchers at Penn State who analyzed seasonal trends of parasite and virus transmission in bees.

Being a single mother of 20 is no joke, especially if the survival of a whole species depends on it. A queen bumblebee faces this very challenge when she lays her first eggs in the spring: She is ...

Remove even one bumblebee species from an ecosystem and the impact is swift and clear: Their floral “sweethearts” produce significantly fewer seeds, a new study finds. The study by Berry Brosi, an ...

A photo of a bumblebee found near Kalamazoo, Michigan, was used to confirm the presence of a species rarely seen in recent decades. The photo of the rusty patched bumblebee was reported to iNaturalist ...

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