Nest House, the architecturally distinctive residence at 1158 Cragmont Avenue in the Berkeley Hills, has received a 2025 AIA East Bay Design Award (Single Family — Honors)—a top recognition that ...

The Spanish word for woodpecker is “pajaro carpintaro,” an appropriate name for these unique birds who are highly adapted carpenters.

Learn the difference between termites and carpenter ants, including how they look, the damage they cause, and what Southern homeowners should know to protect their homes.

This short Minecraft video shows a simple challenge where the goal is to keep running until a bee nest is found. The journey starts in open terrain and quickly moves into a forest biome, where bee ...

Paleontologists working in a cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola have discovered the first-known instance of ancient bees nesting inside pre-existing fossil cavities. Credit: Illustration by ...

Burrowing bees generally prefer to make their nests in the open, but some 20,000 years ago their ancestors lived in a cave where they used the bones of prey animals rather than soft soil. The ...

Ancient bees built nests in the hollows of rodent skulls, a new study suggests L. Viñola López et al., Royal Society Open Science, 2025 under CC BY 4.0 People often appreciate fossils for the insights ...

After performing CT scans, X-ray technology that creates detailed 3D imaging, the authors were able to determine that the small nests were made of mud and belonged to a bee. While wasp nests are made ...

A cave in the Dominican Republic concealed thousands of years worth of animal bones that had been turned into nests by prehistoric bees. Scientists believe the hollowed out tooth sockets of fossilized ...

Scientists studying a Caribbean island cave have unearthed something unexpected: ancient bees very much unlike the hive-dwelling insects we’re most familiar with. For the first time ever, ...

Contrary to popular depictions of bee nests as large, intricate hives that hang from trees, the majority of bee species — about 90% — are actually solitary and build their nests in the ground or ...