Australia's honeybees are facing an exceptional crisis. The tiny but devastating foreign pest Varroa destructor is steadily ...

Without the intense work of pollination that these flying insects carry out, the world would look very different. Now, a ...

The Megachile genus of solitary bees includes native Australian species that use plant resin to construct their nests. Australian leaf cutter bees typically belong to a Megachile sub-genus called ...

Mirroring the mechanisms that make human faces and bodies—and those of many multicellular organisms—symmetrical, bee colonies build symmetrical nests when they are placed on either side of a ...