When bumble bees fight invasive Argentine ants for food, bees may win an individual skirmish but end up with less to feed the ...

Bumble bees battling invasive Argentine ants may win individual fights but ultimately lose valuable foraging time, putting ...

Millie shares an exciting observation she’s made in her garden – a whole host of small native bees are choosing to sleep in some yellow poppies in her garden. She has seen them snuggle down into the ...

Bees are well-known to be sentient individuals with very active minds who display rich cognitive and emotional lives. What has never before been shown is that bumble bees, who play with balls and seem ...

Rusty patched bumble bees lost 87% of their population over the last couple of decades nationwide — their local populations here in Evanston declined as well. Scientists and residents in the greater ...

The removal of floral nectar by nectar robbers may change the behavior of legitimate pollinators and, consequently, the pollination and fertilization success of flowering plants. We measured the ...

The female bee's upward-pointing horns could be used to access flowers, compete for resources, and defend nests, researchers ...

For scores of wild bee species, females and males visit very different flowers for food -- a discovery that could be important for conservation efforts. Indeed, the diets of female and male bees of ...

To the casual observer, it's nothing more than an abandoned golf course. But the land, along with other weedy, minimally ...

In 2019, researcher Kit Prendergast was surveying the insects visiting an incredibly rare plant in the Bremer Ranges of ...

The man’s sentencing comes after he pleaded guilty in September to multiple felonies, including “assault with intent to commit rape and forcible oral copulation,” prosecutors said. Getty ...

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