Bees swarm the queen to protect her and start a new, more sustainable colony capable of producing the next generation of bees.

If you’re a bee, your life (and the lives of 50,000 sisters in the hive) depends on navigation. Particularly, on your ability ...

If you walked the Jersey Shore beaches in the last couple of weeks, you've likely seen a myriad of spotted lanternflies on ...

Bees adapt to rough surfaces with clever building rules—insights that could transform 3D printing and architecture.

Bees are amazing highly intelligent, very likely sentient, and emotional animals. Bee expert Dr. Mathieu Lihoreau's new book titled What Do Bees Think About? is an eye-opening and mind-expanding ...

Upon being stung by a carpenter bee, you’ll feel an immediate and intense pain around the site of the sting, says Dr. Ethan Melillo, PharmD, CDOE. During a mild reaction, a swollen, red bump will ...

An expert shares effective ways to prevent and manage carpenter bee infestations. Protect your wood structures while preserving these valuable pollinators.

A dozen fifth-graders peer at a blown-up microscope image of a Varroa mite. “It’s not a pretty thing,” master beekeeper Carmen Weiland tells them. The mite has a bulbous body, eight segmented legs ...

How does the ocean say bye at the end of spring break? It waves! Why are all the birds flying to Florida? For spring beak. What do you call a stack of pancakes in the month of March? Spring break-fast ...

Honey bees are incredibly social insects. They live together in big groups with other bees in an organized society that scientists call eusocial, which means every bee has a job to do. This could be ...

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