When bumble bees fight invasive Argentine ants for food, bees may win an individual skirmish but end up with less to feed the ...

Bumble bees battling invasive Argentine ants may win individual fights but ultimately lose valuable foraging time, putting ...

ON HOW THIS COULD IMPACT MORE THAN BEES. MIKE: IT’S NOT EVERYDAY THAT YOU HEAR ABOUT INSECTS ON THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT, BUT THAT’S WHAT THE GAME COMMISSION IS GOING TO CONSIDER ONE WEEK FROM TODAY ...

A yellow-faced bumblebee (Bombus vosnesenskii) approaching a California poppy. UC Davis entomologists are trying to learn all they can about how colonies of these pollinators respond to changes in the ...

A new study in the journal PLOS Biology finds that these humble insects can actually learn to solve puzzles from one another, suggesting that even some invertebrates like these social insects have a ...

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Honey bees aren’t the only pollinators—and most bees don’t sting! Learn the truth behind five common myths in honor of ...

In 2017, scientists in the UK carried out research suggesting that the small brain of the bumblebee may be more sophisticated than we realize, demonstrating how they could be trained to roll balls ...

Over the past decade, scientists have been grappling with the worrying decline of bee populations. Sunflower plants could provide a solution, according to a study. The pollen in the bright yellow ...

Bees, despite their sesame seed-sized brains, are smarter than we think. “Often people view insects as unthinking machines,” says Clint Perry, a biologist who studies the evolution of cognition in ...