Honey-hunters in northern Mozambique rely on honeyguide birds to locate three-quarters of their harvest each year, a new ...

By Bobby Bascomb Insect conservation NGO the Xerces Society recently petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ...

Bumblebees with pesticide exposure experience hormetic stress responses with impacts on future generations and reproduction.

Mr. Cañas-Valle’s discovery, described in the journal Ornithology in November, may be the first documented example of ...

Managed honey bees have the potential to affect native bee populations when they are introduced to a new area, but a study ...

Biodiversity is under threat worldwide. While the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem ...

According to several scientific studies, three-quarters of all insects have disappeared in the last 30 years. To counter this decline, scientists from ...

Almost 90% of wild plants and 75% of leading global crops depend on animal ... above or below the ground, while most solitary bees nest in the ground. Bees can be found in so many locations, some ...

Society garlic (Tulbaghia) looks a bit like chives (both are related to onions and garlic) and its common name comes from its ...

What measures are suitable for providing better living conditions for insects in typical german landscapes? This question was investigated by a research team from the University of Würzburg. The ...

The Continental Divide is a well-known dividing line in United States geography. It separates river systems that flow into ...