A team from the University of Freiburg led by neurobiologist and behavioral biologist Prof. Dr. Andrew Straw studied the ...

Mice love to take shelter inside beehives. It’s a perfect spot for a mouse; warm and cozy with plenty of honey to eat. However, bees aren’t too keen on invaders, and they have ways of dealing with ...

One of my favorite pollinators is the bumble bee. Bumble bees are the pollinator world’s cute, cuddly, awkward fellows. Due to their unique physiology that allows bumble bees to fly in conditions when ...

(This story was updated to correct how often the rusty patched bumble bee has been seen. It's been seen in seven states over 10 years.) The rusty patched bumble bee had only been seen in seven states ...

It was all about the bees last week for two Park Slope residents who set up a hive on the roof of a Brooklyn brownstone, home to about 12,000 fuzzy pollinators. Early Friday morning, the beekeepers — ...

When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...

During a cool fall sunset in North Dakota, forklifts buzz around the base of a flatbed trailer, loading pallets. Their cargo, multicolored boxes that look like filing cabinets, buzzes, too. Each box ...

From fundamental biological units as tiny as genes to complex societies, ecological systems rely on cooperation. All manner of organisms can benefit from working together to survive in a dog-eat-dog ...

CENTERVILLE — Bees forced a business to close for two days in Montgomery County and also resulted in a massive bee rescue effort. It’s not unusual to see honey bees around the Miami Valley, but when ...