Among the first crew, scientists observed that when they delayed a partner’s entry into the designated area, the insect that arrived first took longer to push the block than bees taught to push ...

Bees are amazing creatures. Not only do they make tasty honey, but they are also involved in pollinating lots of our food and wild flowers ... for their own beehives. Insects (like bees) play ...

More bees landed and then more, until the log hummed with tens of thousands of the wild, social insects. The entire colony soon moved itself into the woodpecker cavity. Over six months ...

Why Do Bees Have Queens? 2 Biologists Explain This Insect's Social Structure – and Why Some Bees Don't Have a Queen at All (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news ...

Almost 90% of wild plants and 75% of leading global crops depend on animal pollination. One out of every three mouthfuls of our food depends on pollinators such as bees. Crops that depend on ...

So we think that in highly developed areas, insect declines are probably even more dramatic. I study primarily native wild ...

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Stinebiser said her family was well aware of a wild hive of bees living in a tree in their yard and had prepared a hive box, expecting they might someday want to relocate the insects. But the bees ...

Pollination can be a pretty cut-throat process in the plant kingdom. A team of scientists from South Africa and Brazil found that rival plants may compete with one another for space on pollinators.

Just like people confronted with a sea of options at the grocery store, bees foraging in meadows encounter many different flowers at once. They must decide which ones to visit for food ...