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

The black and gold bumblebee became the official Illinois state bee Wednesday. Governor JB Pritzker signed HB 4438 into law, ...

Pritzker signs HB 4438 naming black and gold bumblebee Illinois’ official state bee after Naperville students’ advocacy.

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

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

A bumble bee standing on a ball beneath the artificial flower containing a reward, illustrating the experimental solution. Credit: Mikko Törmänen / University of Oulu Bumble bees demonstrated an ...

As the adage goes, “big things come in tiny packages.” Just ask the humble bumblebee. A team of researchers at the University of Oulu in Finland published a research paper on June 4, suggesting that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Picture this: a bee realizes an out-of-reach flower might become reachable if she repositions a nearby ball underneath it. Then ...

Note to grown-ups looking to get legislation passed in Illinois: It helps to have the backing of school kids. While some high-profile bills failed to garner enough support during the spring session of ...

Busy as bees: Homeschool kids visit Mexico apiary | photos Photographer Libby Kamrowski Kenny focuses on a group of area children visiting the apiary on the Mountain Valley campus May 27 where they ...

(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 ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Kansas wildlife officials are asking for help from the public in tracking the whereabouts of bumble bees in the Sunflower State. Laura Clawson with the Kansas Department of Wildlife ...