UC Santa Barbara leading new NSF grant to digitize, make available more than 1.5 million images of global bee specimens For an insect with so many species, such a vast range and a seriously important ...

Sam Droege’s stunning photos of national park insects are the bee’s knees. (And all the other parts, too.) Sam Droege’s photography studio is tucked inside an old Styrofoam beer cooler. While his ...

Unprecedented images show how the insects cook invaders alive, stay warm or cool, and socialize. With tubular tongues, western honeybees in Langen, Germany, slurp up water to carry back to their nest, ...

The “hive mind” of honeybees is often lauded as an exemplar that humans should strive to emulate. Much scholarship on the insects explores them as a “superorganism”—one animal as a collective, rather ...

As trees and flowers blossom in spring, bees emerge from their winter nests and burrows. For many species it’s time to mate, and some will start new solitary nests or colonies. Bees and other ...

For subscribers only: See the 25 photos that got the most likes from our Instagram followers in 2019. Grief, elation, nostalgia (and animals). The best photos provoke an emotional response. We’ve ...

Garden bees are tremendously important pollinators of plants, commercial crops, and native vegetation. There are over 4,000 ...

FEW insects (or even animals) hold quite as much sway on the planet as bees. As pollinators that flock from flower to flower, crop to crop, they keep the world’s flora and biodiversity thriving. And ...

Picture writing the numbers 1 to 5 in a horizontal line, from smallest to largest. Where did you put 1? If you placed 1 on the left and 5 on the right, you share this preference with most humans. This ...