Biologists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute investigated a flexible social bee species, which helps shed light ...

When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...

In the early 1990s, when I was a Ph.D. student at the Free University of Berlin modeling the evolution of bee color perception, I asked a botany professor for some advice about flower pigments. I ...

Researchers have developed a low-cost, semi-automated, AI-driven method that uses remote cameras to survey bumblebees and ...

Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found. This is the first evidence of such an ability in insects, ...