A study shows that bumblebees can be trained to tell the difference between long and short light flashes. Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have discovered, for the first time, that an ...

A study finds that bumblebees can tell long and short light flashes apart, revealing a surprising timing skill in these tiny ...

A devil-horned bee discovered in Western Australia sheds light on how little we still know about native pollinators. A newly ...

When bumble bees come up against invasive Argentine ants at feeding sites, they may win a direct confrontation but still return to the colony with ...

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

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

Scientists in Australia have discovered a new bee with devil-like horns. The bee has been named ‘Lucifer’ in a nod to a ...

Megachile lucifer is an unusual bee from Australia — black, sleek, and with tiny devil-like horns. It’s named after the ...

We live in a crowdsourced world, from movie reviews to online encyclopedias. Citizen science turns your love of the outdoors ...

A rare North American bumble bee may have been on a path toward extinction long before modern human impacts, suggesting that its long-term genetic vulnerability made it especially fragile and less ...