Not all stinging insects play by the same rules, and the difference between a one-and-done sting versus a relentless repeated assault comes down to some surprisingly ancient biology that shapes how ...

Insects are the primary pollinators of most flowers and crops. Niklas_Weidner/500px via Getty Images Rachel Mallinger: A lot of different insects pollinate. Insects visit flowers for many purposes, ...

In a remote corner of Peru’s central Amazon, a small, ancient pollinator has quietly rewritten legal history. Native stingless bees, long overshadowed by their stinging cousins, have become the first ...

Dikes are indispensable for bees, especially if they are home to many different plant and flower species. A large census conducted on 157 dikes along rivers in the Netherlands revealed that more and ...

The ongoing effort captures high-quality images and collection data in seconds, creating an online database of bees, beetles, butterflies and flies ...

Your feathered friends will thank you if you use these simple tricks.

Twenty-six African queen honey bees escaped a Brazilian apiary in 1957, beginning a continental spread. These bees, known as ...

Nottingham (UK), Jul 13 (The Conversation) You may be spotting bodies of dead bumblebees lying across pavements near you in ...

Slow-motion videos suggest that the insects display distinct behaviors when they like or dislike a snack. The findings might ...

Anyone who has watched a large, heavy-bodied bee moving slowly from flower to flower on a hot day has seen an insect working ...

Many plants, from crops to carnations, cannot bear fruit or reproduce without bees, beetles, butterflies and other insects to pollinate them. But the population of insect pollinators is dropping in ...