Bees have long been celebrated for their intricate hives and precise navigation, but new research suggests their inner lives are even more sophisticated than many scientists assumed. In carefully ...

BEES are the ultimate reluctant security guards, lovely and cute when visiting flowers but allegedly doomed the moment they ...

Dikes are indispensable for bees, especially if they are home to many different plant and flower species. A large census conducted on 157 dikes along rivers in the Netherlands revealed that more and ...

Researchers analyzed more than 1 million insect specimens and recorded 42,305 distinct DNA barcode groups across California.

Get a honeybee near a rose or a lavender and the insect will extend its strawlike tongue to search for nectar, pollinating the flower in the process. That’s at least how it works in clean environments ...

Researchers have proposed a new model for the evolution of higher brain functions and behaviors in the Hymenoptera order of insects. The team compared the Kenyon cells, a type of neuronal cell, in the ...

Many plants, from crops to carnations, cannot bear fruit or reproduce without bees, beetles, butterflies and other insects to pollinate them. But the population of insect pollinators is dropping in ...

No Bees, No Food? How Insects Support Our Dining Tables"If the bees are gone, we're in trouble."Actually, this is not a ...

Brooklyn’s pedestrian plazas will be quite literally buzzing with activity this spring as the city expands The Pollinator Port Project, a program to offer refuge to local bees and other pollinators.