Mirroring the mechanisms that make human faces and bodies—and those of many multicellular organisms—symmetrical, bee colonies build symmetrical nests when they are placed on either side of a ...

A flash of yellow and black in the garden is often enough to make people step back. Yet most of us are not entirely sure whether the insect hovering near a flower bed is a bee, a wasp or a hornet. The ...

On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz around a cluster of hives near Boulder Creek. Worker bees taking off in search of water, nectar and pollen mingle with bees ...

Bees have many different ways of building their homes. Many people will be familiar with the hives of European honeybees, often found in tree cavities. But many other bees – including many of ...

Of the more than 20,000 bee species in the world, 70% nest in the ground. And like many of their counterparts that nest above ground, these bees are facing rapid population declines. But while there ...