Whatever they are doing, bees take their jobs seriously, be it pollinating plants or nursing their young. They protect their homes, too, with dramatic tactics like producing shimmering waves to stave ...

If bees preferred four circles on the right and two circles on the left, that would reveal they have a left-to-right mental number line, like humans. We also tested if bees had a preference to ...

Bigger ants, like Japanese wood ants, are more agile than their counterparts and much larger — they’re equivalent in size to the Asian honeybee. Even still, one in 10 swings sends them soaring.