The wasp is a non-native species to the UK and poses a risk to honey bees.

Those small, misshapen apples you hate seeing at the supermarket? Turns out, you can blame bees — or the lack of the tiny, ...

Recently, I was out in my garden pulling up old pieces of bamboo used for fencing around some fragile native plants getting established. I was in the process of making a pile of them to burn, when ...

Deep inside a fossil-filled cave in the Dominican Republic, researchers uncovered evidence of an unexpected interaction between ancient owls and solitary bees. About 20,000 years ago, a family of owls ...

Honeyguide birds in northern Mozambique learn local human “dialects,” adapting to village-specific calls to guide ...

During spring, when queen bumblebees first emerge from hibernation to start their nests, they work incredibly hard foraging ...

The insect, also known as a yellow-legged hornet, is a harmful invasive species originating from east Asia and was first ...

A dead nest of 'killer' Asian hornets has been found in Wales for the first time. The yellow-legged hornet ( Vespa velutina ...

Queen bumblebees have sparser hair on their tongues than worker bees, which makes them less efficient at lapping up nectar, ...

Researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT), working with international collaborators, have shown that people in ...

Viruses spread from honey bees to wild bees through shared flowers, threatening pollination and plant communities.

But, not so for bumblebees, where the queen is larger but otherwise physically indistinguishable from her workers. In a study ...