About a half hour’s drive northeast of downtown Washington, D.C., at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Sam Droege holds court in a lab filled with hundreds of insect ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (CBS Local)-- If you see a huge insect attacking a bee or a wasp this summer, you've probably stumbled upon a bee panther. Also known as the red-footed cannibalfly, the bee panther is ...

The western honeybee, Apis mellifera, is a striking creature, one of relatively few species for which evolution culminated in advanced society 1. In ‘eusocial’ insect colonies, populations are ...

A research consortium, supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have announced the publication of a high-quality draft genome ...

Brooklyn’s pedestrian plazas will be quite literally buzzing with activity this spring as the city expands The Pollinator Port Project, a program to offer refuge to local bees and other pollinators.

Bees are crucial for life on our planet - but populations are in decline. Everyone has a part to play in saving these fuzzy flying insects, including the world’s luxury hotels. In honour of world bee ...

An extremely rare blue bee that was last seen four years ago has been rediscovered by a researcher at the Florida Museum of Natural History. The metallic navy insect, a blue calamintha bee, had only ...

Far from being mindless drones, the humble honey bee can recognise that zero is less than one — the first insect to show the aptitude to do so. Until recently, only a few mammals and birds have ...

Master beekeeper Tanya Phillips and CNA correspondent Toni Waterman, both wearing beesuits, look at a hive on Ms Philips' bee farm in Texas. AUSTIN, Texas: Honeybees help to pollinate about one-third ...