But, not so for bumblebees, where the queen is larger but otherwise physically indistinguishable from her workers. In a study ...

"Therefore, with the publication of this document, we announce that we plan to initiate status reviews of these species to determine whether the petitioned actions are warranted," the agency wrote.

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 ...

Shrill Carder Bumblebee. Bombus sylvarum, the shrill carder bee or knapweed carder bee, collecting nectar from a flower. wls It's being called the unnoticed apocalypse: The number of insects is ...

Depictions of the bee appear very early in the development of coinage in ancient Greece, which may have started in Ephesus.

The massive use of insecticides across the world by farmers greatly affected bee population in the past decades. Many of the world's crops are pollinated by insects but bees are often regarded to have ...

Nature’s most dazzling colors can be strangely rare. Walk through a park or forest and you see greens, yellows and reds that ...