How can you tell the difference between a yellowjacket and a hornet? And how much cosmic xp do you need to evolve a wasp into a bee? Follow the insect that stung you, and discover the fascinating ...

A common question is what do the bees do in this cold, icy weather? For the last several thousand years, bees have evolved to ...

Recent calls to the Purdue Extension office have prompted me to re-visit a topic I have written about before: bees or wasps that form an elaborate nest and function as a colony. We call them “social” ...

Standing in the hot sun with thousands of bees buzzing around him, Geoff Neale is focused and calm. Behind the veil of his bee suit, he is smiling. A beekeeper for 23 years who teaches newcomers ...

With summer comes warm weather, beach trips and those pesky flying insects that can cause a lot of problems. Hornets, wasps and bees can cause damage, create nests and swarm residents and pets when ...

Contrary to the behavior of certain other insects, bees don’t actually fly once it’s dark, according to this trending ...

Honey bees are able to carefully manage the temperature inside their hives, but new research shows that extreme summer heat ...

Paul Haggett said it was "soul-destroying" to lose about 700,000 bees to changes in the weather.

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 ...

This is a robotic beehive with an efficiency that no human beekeeper could match. The machine scans stacks of honeycombs one by one, inspecting them for disease, monitoring for pesticides, and reports ...