Everyone has heard of the canary in the coal mine, which sways or drops dead in the presence of poisonous gas, alerting miners to get out. Now a University of Montana research team has learned to ...

For the first time, the unique sounds honey bees (Apis cerana) use to alert members of their hive when giant 'murder' hornets attack have been documented. For the first time, the unique sounds honey ...

An ag tech company this month announced a new product line of smart sensors designed to monitor beehives to save labor and prevent hive loss. The new technology, called ApisProtect, uses sensors, ...

Monitoring honey bee hives by hand is passé. The buzz these days is about high-tech sensors inside hives. They help commercial beekeepers keep colonies healthy and allow bees to keep doing their jobs ...

Some species of bees die when they sting a victim just once, and this is puzzling from an evolutionary perspective. Why would a creature evolve a defensive ability that leads to its own demise and how ...

Bioni Samp remembers when his father used to scrape an inch of splattered insects off his windshield after a drive through the English countryside. As the years went by, the number of bugs on the same ...