To stay in the air when hovering over a flower, bumble bees continually flap their wings rapidly, a metabolic process that ...

"Therefore, with the publication of this document, we announce that we plan to initiate status reviews of these species to determine whether the petitioned actions are warranted," the agency wrote.

Habitat loss, pesticides and other factors continue to put the United States’ native bee population at risk, with experts ...

Shrill Carder Bumblebee. Bombus sylvarum, the shrill carder bee or knapweed carder bee, collecting nectar from a flower. wls It's being called the unnoticed apocalypse: The number of insects is ...

A new study in the journal PLOS Biology finds that these humble insects can actually learn to solve puzzles from one another, suggesting that even some invertebrates like these social insects have a ...

In humans, dreams occur in both deep and REM sleep, though it’s the latter that we recall most vividly. The dreams are a manifestation of what occurs in our brains at these times: Deep sleep seems to ...

Peru grants legal rights to native stingless bees, setting a global precedent to protect key pollinators in the Amazon rainforest.