A light crackling sound floats above a field in northern Switzerland in late summer. Its source is invisible, tucked inside a dead, dried plant stem: a dozen larval mason bees striking the inner walls ...

A beetle species’ larvae seem to bamboozle bees by smelling like flowers. This newly discovered deceptive strategy might be the first known example of an animal imitating floral scents, according to a ...

A team of scientists at Oregon State University has recently received more than $4 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to lead a study to understand a disease threatening honeybees. The ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University researchers have identified a specific bacterial microbe that, when fed to honey bee larvae, can reduce the effects of nutritional stress on developing bees -- ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Even as larvae, honey bees are tuned in to the social culture of the hive, becoming more or less aggressive depending on who raises them, researchers report in the journal ...

A few years ago, Adrian Carper, who is in my department and also the Museum of Natural History at the University of Colorado Boulder, told me about a species of bee that could chew nest holes into ...