Honeybees are aggressively pushing wild pollinators away from flowers, with scientists documenting how they chase off rivals ...

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 ...

Scientists recorded for the first time the extent to which honeybees restrict access to food sources and attack other species ...

Viewing honey bee colonies as superorganisms could reshape modern beekeeping, raising important questions about parasite ...

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 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 ...

Imagine waking up tomorrow to complete silence. No buzzing bees, no chirping crickets, no butterflies drifting through ...

Honey bees aren’t the only insects that pollinate crops, but we often overlook or lump together all other, non-bee pollinators – flies, beetles, moths, butterflies, wasps, ants, birds, and bats, just ...

A massive review of 300 wildlife studies uncovered something unsettling: the fates of mammals, birds, amphibians, and ...

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