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 ...

Argentine ants compete with bumble bees for prized nectar sources. But the bees are fighting back. Find out how.

Curious where bees and wasps go in winter? Learn how these buzzing insects survive the cold months and what happens to hives and nests until spring.

Bumblebee guards are actually pretty casual about sterile intruders. They’ll spend a little extra time examining them with their antennae, before allowing them inside. But when fertile intruders show ...

Regardless, insect pollination remains essential for pollen movement and achieving economically viable yields of fruits with ...

Wild bees across the west face a growing threat from microscopic parasites. Last week an Oregon researcher visited USU’s ...

Righteous, sweet, kind” Matilda must “remain alive in our deeds, (in) how we live our lives”, an emotional funeral service ...

Deception is everywhere in nature. Animals and plants routinely cheat, lie and manipulate for their own benefit. One example is mimicry, where one species (the mimic) has evolved to resemble another ...

Matilda Britvan, ten, was celebrating the first day of Hannukah at Bondi Beach with her family on Sunday evening when she was ...

Yes, I realise it won’t be summer for another week or so, but the following observations are just a few Gardeners’ Tips to muck around with: Ancistrocerus gazella is an introduced “potters wasp” from ...

Mourners wearing a cartoon bumblebee sticker gathered in Sydney’s east to grieve and pay tribute to the youngest victim of ...