A whiff of rotting flesh, the flash of a painted eye, a dead-faint to the floor: Nature is full of cunning survival tricks, ...

Question: I try to grow plants to help the pollinators all summer. How do bees survive in the winter? Is there anything I can ...

This study presents an important finding that ant nest structure and digging behavior depend on ant age demographics for a ground-dwelling ant species (Camponotus fellah). By asking whether ants ...

A study led by Penn State reveals that managed honey bees, along with urbanization, impact six native bee genera in Maryland, ...

You know honeybees make honey, but did you know they make bread too? And four other types of bees are also dedicated chefs!

Without pollination, crops worth tens of millions of pounds would be at risk. Honey bees usually prefer to nest in dark ...

Bee hotels are used in gardens to provide nesting chambers for mason bees and increase pollination, but many people don't ...

The City of Toronto also offers a yard waste program, picked up every other week on garbage collection day from mid-March to mid-December. (According to the City’s website, yard waste can also be ...

Some we have called “weeds” may benefit wildlife visiting. They can be used for egg-laying, nesting and nourishing many ...

When it comes to stinging insects, wasps are some of the most feared creatures out there. Unlike honeybees, which can only sting once, most wasps can sting multiple times, injecting painful venom with ...

The ground was hard and a little lumpy, but felt good. It took me a moment to adjust, to slow down, to have no agenda, to ...

Mirroring the mechanisms that make human faces and bodies—and those of many multicellular organisms—symmetrical, bee colonies ...