MIT scientists are designing robotic insects that could one day swarm out of mechanical hives and perform pollination at a rapid pace — ensuring fruits and vegetables are grown at an unprecedented ...

Bee-flies look adorable. Seeing the dark-edged bee-fly hover in mid-air, some people describe it as a tiny, fluffy, flying narwhale. It has a hairy little body and face, and a very long, straw-like ...

New insights into bee movements and life cycles have been uncovered after researchers tracked the insects using tiny QR codes ...

Flies play a crucial role as pollinators, second only to bees in terms of the volume of crops and habitat they pollinate, López-Uribe explained. Flies are especially important for overall health ...

According to a new study, flies may be more sensitive to climate change than bees. In warming experiments, researchers found bees could tolerate temperatures about 2.3 degrees Celsius higher than ...

Scientists have used tracking devices to start solving the mystery of how far bees travel from the hive in search of pollen.

In a study recently published in the Journal of Melittology, an international team of researchers looked at the heat tolerance for a variety of species of bees and flies in tropical and subtropical ...

“We targeted young bees so we could track their age more accurately, especially when they start to fly and when they stop,” said Robyn Underwood of Penn State, who also participated in the stud ...

In the course of her lifetime, a worker bee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 miles and tap two million flowers. In a single ...