The new species is named Hylaeus paumako in a nod to the Hawaiian word “paumākō,” which means grief or mourning, according to ...

An area on the outside of a tree trunk that appears to be stained white or looks wet during summer is likely bacterial ...

What happens when the biodiversity witnessed by one generation fades into memory the next? These questions are crossroads at ...

Back then, in June, the world was exploding with sounds and colors, insects on the wing ... Then there are the elusive ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto A deputy transporting a patient to a mental health hospital faced a “dangerous” predicament when the man escaped handcuffs and grabbed the deputy’s face, according ...

Age UK Hull & East Yorkshire (HEY), for whom Jean raised an astounding £124,000 while dressed as a fluffy bumble bee, has announced that May 13 – Jean’s birthday – will be Bee Lady Day and ...

With a rich and well understood natural history and a long tradition of being used to address fundamental issues in development, neuroscience, behaviour, ecology and evolution, social insects are ...

Most of us UC Master Gardeners are accustomed to being approached by people who think we know everything about horticulture. While flattering, that is not the truth. Our training has taught us how ...

While efforts to speed disaster aid to areas of California hit hard by wildfires languish, lawmakers Monday offered other measures, notably an effort to make arson and looting during a wildfire a ...

They are one of the only types of insects that can warm their bodies in cold conditions, which they do by unhinging their wings from their flight muscles and shivering their bodies. Here, a worker ...