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 ...

You might have wondered why bumblebees stop for a moment to stare at the flower they were just interacted with. Are they ...

Bees and flowers are as classic a pair as peanut butter and jelly. But recent research suggests there's a third, much tinier ...

Flowers emit scented chemicals to attract pollinators, but this perfume—and how pollinators interact with the plant—can go ...

Newcastle beekeeper and chemical engineer explains how beekeeping shaped her view of nature, engineering and conservation.

Potentially deadly viruses in the pollinators are closely linked to the flowers they visit and the availability of flowering ...

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

Many stingless bees are native to Peru, where they pollinate the Amazon's diverse plants and food crops. Luis García Wild, stingless bees have been granted legal rights in some parts of Peru, the ...

The race to spot the year’s first bumble bee will begin just after midnight on New Year’s Day, as the Bohart Museum of Entomology sponsors the sixth annual Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble ...

We’re currently dealing with winter conditions, but to warm us up, I thought I’d cover something we observe, but may not fully understand, in spring, summer, and fall: why do bees visit flowers? Much ...

One kind woman found a bumblebee lying motionless near her home and noticed its wings were broken. Rather than merely passing it by, she decided to bring the insect home for its last days. She then ...

A 54-year-old woman and her father died after she crashed her truck into a beehive near the side of a dirt road in Brazil Following the accident, the woman’s parents rushed to the scene to help when ...