A Green Valley group is joining forces with the U.S. Forest Service to install replaceable pine boards in the back of benches ...

Although pest control companies offer lethal solutions such as carpenter bee traps or chemical treatments, the best way to ...

In the face of colony collapse, some beekeepers are foregoing insecticides and opting instead to breed bees with ...

New research shows bumble bee queens pause egg-laying early in colony formation to manage energy and time reproduction.

Bumblebee queens don t work nonstop. UC Riverside scientists discovered that queens take strategic reproductive breaks early ...

A carpenter bee covered in pollen of a viburnum ... bombi self-medicate by choosing to eat sunflower pollen more often than healthy bees—a behavior documented in ailing honeybees.

In this work, we measured the genetic diversity of the stingless bee Plebeia remota based on molecular data ... Queen philopatry and male dispersal behavior are discussed as the main reasons for these ...

When beekeepers introduced honeybees to a protected island, wild bees nearly vanished. Could removing the hives reverse the ...

Carpenter bees can carve tunnels in wood with their jaws. Discover how they live, build, and help our ecosystems.

For some creatures, like carpenter bees, we mean that literally. Carpenter bees are aptly named for where they nest: inside ...

A 2021 study in Environmental Pollution demonstrated that microplastics can accumulate in bees’ brains, potentially disrupting neural function and behavior. The digestive system is particularly ...