Whatever they are doing, bees take their jobs seriously, be it pollinating plants or nursing their young. They protect their homes, too, with dramatic tactics like producing shimmering waves to stave ...

Asian honeybees protect their hives by making insect intruders go airborne. By Elizabeth Anne Brown Asian honeybees have an impressive playbook of tactics to defend their hives: hypnotic shimmering ...

When a hungry ant approaches a honeybee hive, the residents are ready. They sting, bite or even buzz their wings to create air currents that repel the intruder. But a new study shows that honeybees ...

Animals were once considered mindless—incapable of thoughts or feelings. These views dominated common thought for millennia, until research indicated that mammals and birds can think and feel ...

ESCONDIDOESCONDIDO — A mass bee hive die-off in Escondido last year has been connected to fipronil, a chemical typically used to kill termites, according to a county investigation. But the mystery of ...

When bumble bees fight invasive Argentine ants for food, bees may win an individual skirmish but end up with less to feed the hive. Bumble bees are already under pressure from habitat loss, disease, ...

Somewhere between 400,000 and 700,000 thousand years ago — about the time Haleakala was forming — a tiny bee arrived in the Hawaiian Islands. This bee was about the size of a grain of rice and ...

There are already ant farms that let people watch ants, and even a sealed termite colony for folks who prefer something a little different. Now there's the round, transparent Ivry-B beehive, that ...