Q. Our neighbor has a shrub that is blooming now with plumes of blue flowers. The flowers are attractive, but the thing that ...

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 ...

Bees can distinguish split-second flashes of light, revealing surprising timing abilities and advanced cognitive flexibility.

A new study is the first to show that an insect can differentiate between different durations of visual cues, like Morse code ...

A few weeks ago, I went up to Algonquin, planning to enjoy and photograph the stunning fall colours, the soft glow of sunset, and the ever beautiful harvest moon. While waiting for the moon one ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

UC Davis entomologist Robbin Thorp monitored populations of Franklin's bumble bee (Bombus franklini) until his death in 2019. The bee, found only in a limited area on the border of California and ...

Gardeners know pollinators are essential, especially those industrious bees buzzing tirelessly in and out of squash blossoms and trumpet vines. But one kind of bee may wear your patience thin if ...

An international research team led by the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research at the University of Vienna has made an extraordinary discovery: fossilised lime blossoms and fossilised bumble ...

Bumble bees aren’t random foragers – they’re master nutritionists. Over an eight-year field study in the Colorado Rockies, scientists uncovered that different bee species strategically balance their ...