The ongoing effort captures high-quality images and collection data in seconds, creating an online database of bees, beetles, ...

By Liz Kimbrough Two municipalities in the Peruvian Amazon have granted native stingless bees the legal right to exist, thrive and be represented in court. This is the first time any insect has been ...

Insects are the primary pollinators of most flowers and crops. Niklas_Weidner/500px via Getty Images Rachel Mallinger: A lot of different insects pollinate. Insects visit flowers for many purposes, ...

Entomologist Justin Schmidt got stung by 100 species to create a definitive pain index for insect bites. How painful are ...

New research reveals that honey bee queen development depends on specialized royal cells and worker bees, not just royal ...

Bumble bees astonished researchers by inventing a new way to reach a hidden reward, despite never being taught the trick. The ...

Insect populations have been in decline the last 20 years, so if you want to do your part to help them this is what you need ...

You know bees are beneficial, but you might not know about another beneficial flying insect. Find out what it is and why you ...

Insects join list of species capable of solving simple ‘box-and-banana’ problem that demonstrates basic intelligence ...

A rare bee species has recently been discovered in SC for the first time, according to the SCDNR. It's only found in a ...

Scientists found low doses of a widely used pesticide disrupt bee reproduction by altering genes in their ovaries rather than ...