In Indigenous Asháninka belief, bees were once spirits in human form. Stories tell of a woman who enjoyed making masato, a ...

For a small number of animals, reproduction marks a biological endpoint rather than a stage in an ongoing life cycle. Death ...

Wallace's giant bee, a colossal solitary insect from Indonesia, has been rediscovered after decades of absence. This ...

Quick Take Pesticides are the nerve center threat driving hummingbirds away, thinning their insect prey and contaminating ...

Researchers discover that insect sex systems influence the speed of mitochondrial evolution, impacting biodiversity tracking ...

Beyond biodiversity, stingless bees play a stabilising role in ecosystems under pressure. By enabling plant reproduction, ...

Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’ ...

Mike Lamp may not be very busy as the cooling November temperatures settle on his apiary in Monongalia County, but that doesn ...

A new study published in Science shows that these plants—called cycads—use infrared radiation from heat as a signal to ...

Thankfully, we can still turn to our bookshelves — and podcasts — to ground us. We tapped science doyenne Alie Ward, the host of the funny cult favorite “ Ologies” podcast, to share her picks for the ...

Honey is one of the oldest natural foods known to humankind and has been valued for both nutrition and medicine for thousands ...