In the vast realm of insects, certain beetles, mites, and other insects—including bees, ants, and wasps—use a unique system ...

Bees do not create honey ... In one day a queen can lay her weight in eggs. She will lay one egg per minute, day and night, for a total of 1,500 eggs over a 24-hour period and 200,000 eggs ...

A recent media trip organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in partnership with Nedbank focused on the conservation ...

Mirroring the mechanisms that make human faces and bodies—and those of many multicellular organisms—symmetrical, bee colonies ...

We use soap water and vinegar water solutions to ward off pests that harm plants because pesticides ingested by bees ...

Like their avian counterparts, cuckoo bees lay their eggs in the nests of other bees, usually solitary dwellers. When the cuckoos hatch they kill off the usurped bees' larva and and survive on ...

Solitary bees lay relatively few eggs, stashing only a few dozen young inside a dead twig or in a hollow piece of coral on a rocky shoreline. They leave their young provisioned with food but ...

One of the biggest hazards of a carpenter bee infestation is the potential structural damage these pests can inflict by tunneling into wood to lay eggs. These bees bore nests deep into exposed ...