A new study has mounted perhaps the most intricate, detailed look ever at the diversity in structure and form of bees, offering new insights in a long-standing debate over how complex social behaviors ...

Sam Droege’s stunning photos of national park insects are the bee’s knees. (And all the other parts, too.) Sam Droege’s photography studio is tucked inside an old Styrofoam beer cooler. While his ...

Corbiculate bees--those that possess corbicula, or pollen baskets, on their hind legs--encompass honey bees, stingless bees, bumble bees, and orchid bees. Among them, honey bees and stingless bees are ...

Unprecedented images show how the insects cook invaders alive, stay warm or cool, and socialize. With tubular tongues, western honeybees in Langen, Germany, slurp up water to carry back to their nest, ...

As trees and flowers blossom in spring, bees emerge from their winter nests and burrows. For many species it’s time to mate, and some will start new solitary nests or colonies. Bees and other ...

In northeastern Turkey, the beekeeping traditions of the Hemshin people, an ethnic minority originating from Armenia, are both evolving and at risk of vanishing. Atilla G ü nari tends to one of his ...