Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That’s a good question, because it’s complicated. A queen bee is a female bee that is the only bee in the hive to lay eggs. She is ...

IT IS a beautiful, sunny day. The smell of a barbecue is in the air and a bee is bumbling from flower to flower. Everything feels perfect. Then a wasp appears, stirring up rather different feelings: ...

Recent calls to the Purdue Extension office have prompted me to re-visit a topic I have written about before: bees or wasps that form an elaborate nest and function as a colony. We call them “social” ...

That matters beyond the insects themselves. Bees and wasps help support pollination and other ecological interactions. If ...

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Wasps deserve to be just as highly valued as other insects, like bees, due to their roles as predators, pollinators, and more, according to a new review paper led by UCL and University of East Anglia ...

Bees and wasps provide many ecological services, including pollinating and feeding on garden pests such as caterpillars. But now that chilly days have arrived in most of the Southeast, you may wonder ...

Pollinating insects are important for agriculture and ecological flourishing, but they are difficult to monitor, as ...

Nature is red in tooth and claw — an adage that applies to the smallest creatures as well as the largest. Just ask one unfortunate half-bee, who was gnawed in two by a yellowjacket wasp in a new video ...