Butterflies and bumble bees are all the rage these days at the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology. It’s all in black and ...

Bumble bees live in colonies with a few hundred insects that include a queen, female workers, and male bees (called drones).

Across the country live about 4,000 native bee species — most of which are solitary and nest in the ground — coming in nearly every color of the rainbow and ranging widely in size. The country harbors ...

Octonauts: Insect quiz To celebrate World Bee Day the Octo-agents have been learning about incredible insects from across the world, see if you know these facts about some of the insects the ...

We're working hard to protect these iconic insects. Please help us save them now ... starting when an adult fly attaches to a bee midflight and inserts her egg, which hatches inside the bee and ...

Winner: Tree bumblebee. Colonised mainland Britain in ... and wild plants is carried out by their wild relatives and other insects, especially hoverflies. Dr Gary Powney of the Centre for Ecology ...

Bee-flies look adorable. Seeing the dark-edged bee-fly hover in mid-air, some people describe it as a tiny, fluffy, flying narwhale. It has a hairy little body and face, and a very long, straw-like ...

As the weather heats up bee and wasp queens emerge from hibernation in search of a place to start their nests.

Insects are going extinct 8 times faster than mammals, birds, and reptiles Sanchez-Bayo and the other researchers behind the February 2019 study found that bee species in the UK, Denmark ...