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 ...

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

Scientists have uncovered new insights into how desert ants use the Earth’s magnetic field to help them find their way.

Desert ants rely on the Earth's magnetic polarity to navigate, unlike other insects. Experiments reversing polarity confused ...

They investigated which characteristics of the quarries – such as size, age, scrub cover and abundance of flowers – are important for bees and whether the structure of the surrounding ...

The winners of the UK-wide NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2024 have been announced at a ceremony on Thursday 21 November 2024, during the annual National Biodiversity Network Conference, taking ...

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

"It's a refresh, not a rebrand. We would say it's an evolution, not a revolution." That's how Ashley Havili, VP of marketing and merchandise for the Salt Lake Bees, describes her team's new logos and ...

The CDC reports that between 2000 and 2017, an average of 62 Americans per year died from hornet, wasp, and bee stings. In such rare cases, bee stings may cause a life threatening allergic ...

Between 2016 and 2020, the National Parks Board received around 8,400 requests for the removal of bee, wasp and hornet hives. The default method of managing hives is to exterminate them ...

What is furry, nectar-loving, and a crucial pollinator? It turns out that both bees and Ethiopian wolves might fit the bill. An international team of scientists, including researchers from the ...

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 ...