Bees have incredibly complex and nuanced social dynamics. Discover the different kinds of bee hives and how they work.

Eusocial animals express complex behaviors, like group decision-making. Evolutionary biologists have asked how and why eusociality has evolved, and what we can learn from eusocial organisms. Aa Aa Aa ...

Even professional apiarists confuse carpenter bees and bumblebees. Nevertheless, there are clues that novice bee enthusiasts can rely on to help them properly distinguish these bees from each other.

In the first study to link social evolution to climate change, Cornell University entomologists show that the social behavior of many species of sweat bees evolved simultaneously during a period of ...

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One evolutionary view of aging, the disposable soma theory, suggests that an organism’s rate of senescence depends on the amount of energy invested in somatic maintenance. Since organisms have limited ...

Ants originate over 140 million years ago. Their food source consists of herbivorous insects dependent on flowering plants. Ants, like humans, colonize nearly every land mass on earth. Both humans and ...