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

Birds come in a wide variety of colors. Some feature relatively dull plumage, while others sport brightly colored feathers.

Ah, the beloved honeybee. They’re fuzzy and social. They make honey and beeswax. Children draw them and backyard beekeepers ...

When we picture beekeeping, most of us imagine jars of golden honey, gentle buzzes in summer gardens, and helpful pollinators ...

Carpenter bees can carve tunnels in wood with their jaws. Discover how they live, build, and help our ecosystems.

Throughout the 2024-25 school year the students at Great Expectations School have been producing a weekly phenology report ...

By 2050, almost 70% of the world's population will live in cities—20% more than today. As cities expand, the natural world ...

First part of 2 series Bees are speaking to us—not with sound, but through their presence, their absence and their steady ...

Australia’s native bees are key to pollination and ecosystem balance. Some outperform honey bees in certain roles.

There’s a decomposing tree trunk where scores of skinks and bugs live, birds nest under her carport and she regularly ... to ...

In 2018, the United Nations officially started World Bee Day. They chose May 20 because it’s the birthday of Anton Janša. He lived in Slovenia in the 1700s and helped improve how people care for bees.

It uses them to scrape sticky resin off trees to build burrows within termite nests ... bee is currently only considered “vulnerable” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature ...