A study finds that diverse flowers sometimes increase virus spread among bees, challenging assumptions about biodiversity, ...

If the governments of Australia can invest millions into the honeybee industry, they surely have the resources to support ...

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

Hannah’s colleague Molly Jacobson was the first to find the chestnut mining bee, or “Andrena rehni” in New York since 1904 ...

When Aécio Luiz was younger, finding wild beehives was routine in his rural Afro-Brazilian community of Córrego Narciso. A ...

Botanists in Odisha are trying hard to promote beekeeping, as the impact of pesticides, habitat loss, and climate change lead ...

Hyderabad: The Sankranti festival this year turned out to be more lethal than usual for birds in the city, with rescue teams ...

The world’s largest bee is a solitary insect known from a small cluster of islands in eastern Indonesia. Wallace’s giant bee, Megachile pluto, has dra.

I n a first for nature and the planet, an insect has been given official legal rights. The revolutionary move comes from Peru, where the world’s oldest bee species is responsible for pollinating over ...

Research from Monash University explores how rising temperatures and growing urban environments can affect behavior in native ...

A historical bee collection from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History has been newly researched and photographed.

A recent study shows that viruses in wild bees are closely linked to the flowers they visit and the availability of floral ...