Volunteers are needed to help compile what’s known as Iowa’s Bumble Bee Atlas, an effort to gauge the state’s populations of ...

A new study shows that bumble bee queens take regular breaks from reproduction, likely to avoid burning out before their ...

Learn to draw a bee! I don’t usually like drawing insects, so I’ve broken the process of drawing a bumblebee down into super simple steps. Follow along with this video tutorial and get my ...

The buzz of a bumble bee feeding at a willow catkin is a sure ... a dizzying diversity of insects will converge in our gardens, along roadsides, and in meadows and forests. As they forage between ...

"Bee flies are real flies. They mimic bumble bees and even do a bit of pollinating, though it is inefficient as these flies quickly hover above flowers and, mostly using static electricity, draw ...

Steve Clark’s movements appeared to vibrate an endless amount of energy and delight – sort of like the bees he’s attempting to draw ... bee species live in the Pacific Northwest, including ...

Social insects are traditionally thought to be wholly ... Similarly, a scent experienced by a bee inside its hive can bring back the memory of a flower patch with the same scent.

Even without any survival incentive, bumble ... bee colonies housed in a container that mimicked their natural nesting environment. To avoid distressing the bees, the researchers handled the ...

A recent study revealed clues about how the chemical compound affects bee ... in bumble bees. The scientists suspected that this hormone is important to the way carbon dioxide could affect insects ...

Therefore, in bee colonies, immunity can be spread through the whole hive through just one queen bee. No shots will be injected into the small insects, however. The honeybee vaccine will be delivered ...

The industrious insects can count and alter their behavior when things seem difficult, and now some scientists say there's proof they also like to play. A study recently published in Animal ...