A team of researchers has uncovered alarming trends in the first range-wide genetic study of an endangered bee species. The study, led by Colorado State University and published in the Journal of ...

The black and gold bumblebee may soon find its place on a list of Illinois state symbols that includes the violet, sweet corn ...

Scientists have identified the red-tailed bumblebee as the main host of acute bee paralysis virus, a disease lethal to honeybees. The discovery challenges previous assumptions that honeybees were the ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service today announced Endangered Species Act protections for the elusive Franklin’s bumblebee, a West Coast pollinator whose very existence is open to question. The Fish and ...

ST. PAUL — Meet Minnesota's new state bee: The rusty patched bumblebee, an endangered species you might be able to see in your own backyard. Once widespread and abundant, the bumblebee's population ...

WASHINGTON— NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), the Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of Minnesota Scientific and Natural Areas today issued a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S.

This summer, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is calling on volunteers to participate in a statewide bumblebee ...

The designation would have been extra layer of protection for the bee, on top of its already endangered status. “This decision weakens the bee’s protection under the Endangered Species Act and will ...

The unlikely friendship between a woman and a bumblebee has taken the internet by storm. In a video shared on Twitter by The Dodo, a woman named Tiana told the story of Bumble — a bumblebee she found ...

This 2012 photo provided by The Xerces Society shows a rusty patched bumblebee in Minnesota. The state Legislature anointed the endangered species as the new state bee. When it comes to staying ...