Compared with other ultrablack animals, female velvet ants are darker than the common birdwing butterfly, the only other insect known to display such a shade. The velvet ants’ coloring is closer to ...

America is home to over 90,000 species of insects, with more that have yet to be discovered. Here are 10 of the most ...

In the vast realm of insects, certain beetles, mites, and other insects—including bees, ants, and wasps—use a unique system of sex determination known as haplodiploidy. In this system, the sexual ...

Japan has a population of 125 million in a country the size of California; Tokyo alone has about 37 million people. By ...

Cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) from Brazil ... Notes.Rosa & Melo (2014: 294–295) discuss on the contentious type locality of several Brazilian bee and wasp species described from material ...

The Asian or yellow-legged hornet can kill 50 bees a day (Alamy/PA) Rapid action against an invasive bee-killing hornet has stopped its spread in the UK despite suitable climate and habitat for ...

If there's a small black filament sticking out of the center, that's the stinger. (Only honey bees leave this behind, so if you don't see one, you were likely stung by a bumblebee, wasp, yellow jacket ...

A hobby beekeeper who invented a device to limit the destruction of hives by Asian hornets has won a top business award for women entrepreneurs. The Stop-It device, and its successor Stop-It Max, give ...