Unable to resist a tempting aroma, the traps successfully lured their target – large iridescent orchid bees – including four species never before recorded in Ecuador, according to a study ...

Pictured above is an iridescent orchid bee, a tropical cousin of the bumblebee and honeybee. Read on to see, very close up, the beauty of a chalcidid wasp, a jewel beetle, and a weevil.

Iridescent orchid bees, tropical cousins of bumblebees and honeybees, were among the multitude of insects that entomologists collected at an observation tower in Brazil. This story appears in the ...

See All Key Ideas With their metallic-blue-and-green bodies and iridescent wings, orchid bees aren’t just charismatic bugs. They’re specialist pollinators in tropical rainforests from Mexico ...

Deep in the tropical rainforests of northern Ecuador, researchers equipped with slingshots launched traps scented with vanilla, clove, wintergreen and eucalyptus up into the tree canopy, hoping to ...