A new species of metallic blue bee, found so far in Texas and Oklahoma, was recently discovered by researchers.

Some animals have a “third eye”, and some spiders have as many as eight, but what about bees? A quick glance might lead you to answer “two”, and two pretty massive ones at that ...

Look closely at the head of a bee and you’ll see three tiny nubs like glassy marbles perched high between their large, faceted eyes. Though incapable of forming images, these “ocelli” track ...

Bees. Bees, essential pollinators in many ecosystems ... Most striking are its five eyes, which likely gave it a significant advantage in terms of environmental awareness. As a stem arthropod ...

Photos from Bossert, Hung and Neff (2024) The bee is also drawn to two particular flowers more than any other, purple groundcherry and greenleaf five eyes, which are in the nightshade family ...