Whatever they are doing, bees take their jobs seriously, be it pollinating plants or nursing their young. They protect their homes, too, with dramatic tactics like producing shimmering waves to stave ...

Ants and bees operate under rules that differ sharply from most animals. This video compares their collective behavior to the ...

Some honey bees in parts of Asia have an effective way of keeping intruders out of their hives. They slap them–with lightning speed. Video included in a study published July 10 in the journal Ecology ...

When bumble bees fight invasive Argentine ants for food, bees may win an individual skirmish but end up with less to feed the hive. Bumble bees are already under pressure from habitat loss, disease, ...

Ants and bees are surprisingly more genetically related to each other than they are to social wasps such as yellow jackets and paper wasps, a team of University of California, Davis, scientists has ...

Are praying mantises pretty smart? Do inchworms have the highest IQ? Or is it the humble bumblebee that beats out the beetles ...

MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - Local nature experts say "killer bees" and the "tawny crazy ants" are both on the brink of a South Carolina invasion. Each species is in our surrounding states already, and ...

This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Given that she infects ant colonies with deadly pathogens and then studies how they respond, one might say that ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Findings from a new study reveal that invasive ants are threatening the state’s endangered Hawaiian yellow-faced bees. Get news on the go with KHON 2GO, KHON’s morning podcast, ...

Between the destruction of open spaces and the rise of urban beekeeping, former country bees are finding themselves in the city a lot these days. Fortunately, the change of scenery might not be ...