Bees rely on sunlight and polarized light to navigate, making nighttime flight dangerous and often impossible for honey bees.

Despite not looking much like one another, many do however closely resemble other species of animals that they are not ...

When Aécio Luiz was younger, finding wild beehives was routine in his rural Afro-Brazilian community of Córrego Narciso. A ...

Compare the sting of a bee versus a wasp and understand the differences up close. What happened after the country’s 'most dangerous law' went into effect? Here are the numbers Body of missing Sierra ...

Many stingless bees are native to Peru, where they pollinate the Amazon's diverse plants and food crops. Luis García Wild, stingless bees have been granted legal rights in some parts of Peru, the ...

Bees and wasps provide many ecological services, including pollinating and feeding on garden pests such as caterpillars. But now that chilly days have arrived in most of the Southeast, you may wonder ...

Bumblebees have a way of looking both adorable and slightly overserved, wobbling from flower to flower like fuzzy little potatoes. They seem simple, almost carefree. But a new study suggests there’s ...

Bumble bees respond to physical disturbance of their nest with a sequence of defensive behaviors that lasts up to 10 minutes, according to a study by Sajedeh Sarlak at the University of Konstanz, ...

Beekeepers struggle with rising salinity and extreme heat Honey production in Basra expected to decline by 50% this season Water crisis worsened by upstream dams, raising salinity levels BASRA, Iraq, ...

(Beyond Pesticides, September 24, 2025) A novel study of chronic toxicity of the neonicotinoid insecticide thiamethoxam to honey bees (Apis mellifera), published in Insects, finds sublethal effects ...