It turns out even worker bees know how to cut loose. A group of scientists used a rolling ball experiment to determine that bumblebees play just like other animals. As with humans, dogs, and dolphins, ...

When a bumble bee emerges from torpor, it repeatedly rubs its arms over its head and flexes its abdomen. It’s a half-stretch, half-dance move that warms the bee up and out of the state of decreased ...

MILWAUKEE - If you go for a walk from mid-April through May in an old Wisconsin forest, odds are you may have noticed diverse beds of flowers less than a foot high. These are spring ephemerals – short ...

From oceanspray that hosts spring azure butterflies to zinnias that attract a wide array of pollinators, these 12 plants create a thriving ecosystem.

Even professional apiarists confuse carpenter bees and bumblebees. Nevertheless, there are clues that novice bee enthusiasts can rely on to help them properly distinguish these bees from each other.

Every bumble bee colony has a queen, but a new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests the process of determining ...

On the international day for celebrating bees, The Bee Guy shares 20 cool facts about these amazing and very much endangered ...

Bumble bees aren’t random foragers – they’re master nutritionists. Over an eight-year field study in the Colorado Rockies, scientists uncovered that different bee species strategically balance their ...

While every bumble bee colony has a queen, the process for becoming that queen bee may be a bit more democratic than ...