At Bendix Woods County Park, an indoor observation hive gives visitors of all ages a close-up look at bees and their important role in nature. Learn how these small pollinators support the environment ...

In this video, watch as 20,000 bees quickly swarm into a box in just 60 seconds. The footage captures the fascinating and ...

The post How Nature’s Most Polite Bees Say “Excuse Me” appeared first on A-Z Animals. No creature fascinates and delights the human mind quite like the honeybee, and not just because of the tasty ...

The problem with climate change isn't just the temperature—it's also how fast the climate is changing today. Historically, Earth's climate changes have generally happened over thousands to millions of ...

I live in a part of North Berwick that has super sandy soil. We have a small river out back bordered by a floodplain that floods at least a couple of times a year, and is shaded by pines and covered ...

Oil-collecting bees engage in one of the most specialised plant–pollinator mutualisms, centred on floral glands known as elaiophores that secrete non-volatile lipids. These floral oils serve multiple ...

High heat and heavy metals dampen a bumblebee’s trademark buzz, threatening pollen release and colony chatter. Tiny sensors captured up-to-400-hertz tremors that falter under environmental stress, ...

Solitary bees display a remarkable diversity of pollen foraging strategies that balance the nutritional requirements of larvae with the morphological and chemical defences of pollen sources.

About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimise reproduction, making pollination one of nature’s most important processes. Bees are usually the first insects to ...

When I was a kid one of my favorite books was “Where They Go in Winter” by Margaret Waring Buck. I think I was around 7 years old when it came out. The illustrations and explanations of how a variety ...

Source: Bryant Ross / Used with permission. When I came across Susan Cormier's new book Dead Bees Still Sting, I was expecting a memoir of beekeeping. It is so much more! In the tradition of Henry ...