Africanized bees may look nearly identical to traditional honeybees, but experts say their behavior can be dramatically different when a colony feels threatened.

Harry Potter fans surely remember butter beer, but extra points go to those who remember what type of drink Hagrid had several pints of at the Three Broomsticks, or what drink Dumbledore shared with ...

If you've noticed more bees than usual buzzing around North Alabama this spring, you're not imagining it. Spring is swarm ...

Purple coneflower is a low-maintenance native plant that adds beauty to your garden and supports pollinators and birds.

Whenever I would quiz him, he would take notice of his missed words. He’d analyze every missed word he had, try to figure out why he missed it,” said Sohum Sukhatankar, a co-champion in 2019 who ...

Shrey Parikh finished third in the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee before making a stunning exit from his school bee last ...

Seventh-grader Nicole Lopez will join 246 other spellers for the 101st edition of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Here’s ...

Pollinators like bees and butterflies are vanishing across the world due to toxic pesticides and habitat loss, threatening ecosystems and global food security. Over 87% of flowering plants rely on ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee runs from Tuesday through Thursday this week. The bee began in 1925, with this year marking ...

It will lay down a pheromone trail that the other ants can follow back to the food source.” Like wasps and bees, ants are social and live in a colony with one or more queens. That means the workers ...

Honeybees are among the widely studied insects, due to their sophisticated, hierarchical social organization and their ...

Even tiny insects need to focus. In a recent study, honey bees—usually quick to learn which scent means sugar—completely ...