Deception is everywhere in nature. Animals and plants routinely cheat, lie and manipulate for their own benefit. One example ...

Hoverflies, often mistaken for bees and wasps, pollinate three quarters of our crops. Now we’re discovering we can train them ...

Pollinators work for free, but they require specific conditions to perform well. It's easy to introduce these elements in ...

The Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer is a “leaf cutter” bee, with distinctive horns on its head. While these are the obvious reasoning behind its chosen name, there was another factor at play. “I am ...

13:04, Sat, Nov 15, 2025 Updated: 13:04, Sat, Nov 15, 2025 Shocking new images have laid bare the scale of what officials say is one of Britain’s worst-ever fly-tipping crimes: a 500ft-long, 50 ...

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A devil-horned bee discovered in Western Australia sheds light on how little we still know about native pollinators. A newly identified native bee with tiny, horn-like projections on its face has been ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

One of Britain's 'biggest ever' fly tips has appeared in Oxfordshire and is a massive 500ft-long mountain of abandoned rubbish, prompting activists to condemn the 'environmental catastrophe'. The 20ft ...

Scientists have identified a new native bee from Western Australia with tiny, devil-like horns on its face. Each horn is about 0.04 inches (1 millimeter) long, unmistakable, and points slightly upward ...

A homeowner in Princeton recently discovered an estimated 15,000 honeybees and a massive amount of honey hidden inside a bathroom wall. The bees were safely removed by the local company, Ross’ Rowdy ...