Croatia was still dealing with the hidden legacy of the Balkan wars when scientists began looking to an unlikely ally: honeybees. Years after mines had been buried across fields, forests and rural ...

Beekeepers can oversee a number of hives and often catch swarms in the wild. These bees then pollinate surrounding flora and ...

Inside an ant colony, queens reproduce while workers care for young and maintain a society built around shared labor. For ...

Gardeners often find plants that resemble other things. Some orchids evoke animals, people and even a naked man.

You don’t have to squint very hard to see the uncanny resemblance that some orchid varieties bear to babies, doves, bees and ...

A recent detection of the invasive yellow-legged hornet in Mecklenburg County has North Carolina beekeepers, gardeners and ...

As the replies came in, the consensus shifted to a European hornet, or Vespa crabro, rather than a bee or cicada killer.

Museum collections become permanent records of biodiversity, allowing future scientists to study species that may one day ...

Today’s powerful biotechnology tools can help researchers anticipate and head off issues early on. Domestication is nothing new From grain domestication starting as far back as 12,000 years ago to ...

For more than 60 years, evolutionary biologists have debated whether a unique genetic system found in ants, bees and wasps ...

The northern giant hornet gained a frightening nickname after appearing in Washington state because its workers can organize ...