Honeybees can solve simple addition and subtraction problems and even possess some understanding of the concept of zero ...

But, not so for bumblebees, where the queen is larger but otherwise physically indistinguishable from her workers. In a study ...

When Aécio Luiz was younger, finding wild beehives was routine in his rural Afro-Brazilian community of Córrego Narciso. A ...

A Peruvian scientist and her team are working together to make sure stingless bees are around for generations to come by ...

Botanists in Odisha are trying hard to promote beekeeping, as the impact of pesticides, habitat loss, and climate change lead ...

In a groundbreaking move with international significance, insects–specifically stingless bees from the Peruvian Amazon–have ...

Two local ordinances granted rights to at least 175 stingless bee species in Peru, which are culturally and spiritually ...

Scientists are studying bees’ surprising maths skills to explore whether numbers could be a universal language for ...

Mathematics also features in a 1998 novella by Ted Chiang called Story of Your Life, which was adapted into the 2016 film ...

Bees use polarized sunlight scattered by the atmosphere in order to navigate; they always know where the sun is, even if ...

Deep inside a fossil-filled cave in the Dominican Republic, researchers uncovered evidence of an unexpected interaction ...

Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’ ...