"Therefore, with the publication of this document, we announce that we plan to initiate status reviews of these species to determine whether the petitioned actions are warranted," the agency wrote.

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

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 ...

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 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided to list a bumblebee found only in Northern California and Southern Oregon as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. Franklin’s bumblebee hasn’t ...

When pollen is scarce, bumble bees will nibble on the leaves of plants that lack flowers thereby damaging them, which compels the plants to bloom two to four weeks earlier A buff-tailed bumble bee ...