Mice love to take shelter inside beehives. It’s a perfect spot for a mouse; warm and cozy with plenty of honey to eat. However, bees aren’t too keen on invaders, and they have ways of dealing with ...

Ants farm aphids. It's weird yet fascinating. And a bit like a miniature horror movie. But it's a nightmare for gardeners.

Like other insects, individual bees survive our harsh winters in diapause, overwintering in different stages of their life cycle: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Those individuals survive safe from the ...

These underground rodents are the first mammals found to actively choose air with lower-than-normal oxygen levels. Their ...

Flow Hive turned home beekeeping into a consumer product by letting keepers draw honey straight from the hive through a tap, ...

Spring ephemerals live on borrowed light. They push up before deciduous trees leaf out, bloom in a brief burst, set seed, ...

Although honey bees have the ability to regulate hive temperatures, new research published in Ecological and Evolutionary ...

Honey bees are able to carefully manage the temperature inside their hives, but new research shows that extreme summer heat ...

Honey bees can normally keep their hives perfectly climate-controlled, but extreme heat can overwhelm their defenses. During ...

A few months ago, I awoke to find a streak spanning the length of my kitchen wall that looked like it had been drawn there ...

Deep inside an ant nest, some of the youngest members are primed to die for the group. When infection strikes, these baby ants do not just fall sick and fade away. They actively trigger their own ...

The behavior prevents fungal pathogens from spreading through the colony Researchers call it "altruistic disease signaling" that protects the ant superorganism In a rare example of biological altruism ...