Bees can get drunk from fermented nectar, and guard bees may eject intoxicated foragers to protect the hive from harm.

Bees and wasps provide many ecological services, including pollinating and feeding on garden pests such as caterpillars. But now that chilly days have arrived in most of the Southeast, you may wonder ...

Perhaps the best way to confront the swiftly changing landscape is to swallow hard, and then move forward with a fresh ...

Most people have done it. You see something small and wiggly on a plant, your brain says “bug = bad,” and your hand is ...

Through pollination and feeding on all parts of plants, insects influence which plants thrive, which struggle, and even ...

Cone snails may appear small and harmless, but some species possess an extremely potent venom used to immobilise prey. Found ...

Bees that once hovered around flowers and wasps that appeared at picnic tables almost vanish overnight. The inevitable ...

The FAO is bringing proven country-specific research out of laboratories and into farmers’ fields to tackle the climate ...

Some plants have multiple insects that can pollinate them. Conditions such as the weather or the season can reduce this ...

This morning people everywhere are opening presents and gathering together with family and friends – observing the religious meaning of the season and/or celebrating the joys of all that happens this ...

The parasitoid, which is also a native species, has a different life cycle than the wheat stem sawfly. It has two generations ...

Using insects such as wasps to control agricultural pests remains a resilient method, despite increasing resistance, a new ...