One of the stars of ESPN's NFL coverage, Mina Kimes will host her first Scripps National Spelling Bee this year. Kirby Lee / Imagn Images NFL analyst Mina Kimes is hoping to bring a “big-game” feel to ...

Honeybees are among the widely studied insects, due to their sophisticated, hierarchical social organization and their ...

Even tiny insects need to focus. In a recent study, honey bees—usually quick to learn which scent means sugar—completely ...

Barkanov thinks that one reason, besides the warm winter and spring, could be that the bees didn’t swarm enough last season.

Aside from Pentucket Regional School District’s student-body of nearly 2,300 students, Superintendent Justin Bartholomew is ...

Scientists are examining the extraordinary colony-building capacities of solo queen bumblebees to better understand cognition ...

When Kendal Sager lifts the top of her beehive, tens of thousands of bees waggle across the honeycomb — their cells filled with bright yellow, orange and pink pollen collected from flowers in Sager's ...

The soft ground of the dead in upstate New York is buzzing with swarms of the living—the largest group of ground-nesting bees ever recorded worldwide. “It’s a massive aggregation of bee nests,” says ...

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AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Ground nesting bees account for most of North Carolina’s roughly 560 native bee species. The insects usually emerge in the spring and ...

When the weather gets muggy, iridescent bees shift their metallic hue. The insects are a rich blue-green when ambient humidity is low. But as the amount of moisture in the air increases, the bees turn ...