The Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee has a unique life cycle. Like cuckoo birds, they lay their eggs in the nests of other species ...

Daisy Day. In Britain there are around 250 different species of bees. A few of these are social insects living in large ...

Bugs that are good for plants fall into three distinct categories: pollinators, predators, and parasitoids. Each group has its own special mechanism that works to protect plants from harmful insects, ...

The larvae of the Short-Necked Oil Beetles lurk among flowers waiting for a passing bee to carry them back to its nest, where ...

Adding hundreds of thousands of honeybees into a previously balanced residential environment disrupts it substantially.

Among all these pollinators, bumble bees are some of the largest and most familiar insects to us. You might be surprised to ...

If the weather isn’t ideal and there isn’t a host to feed on, flea larvae may remain dormant for months while waiting for better conditions to develop. This is a key reason managing ...

Bumblebees, for example, are adapted for cooler regions because of their fuzzy bodies. Some bumblebee populations have been disappearing from the southern parts of their geographic range and have ...

A 23-year-old was killed in a crash Sunday morning after traveling at a high rate of speed in Fresno County. The solo-vehicle collision happened at 12:10 a.m. at Highway 180, near Temperance Avenue.

In their larval stage, they feed on decaying wood ... Similar to ants, bees live in colonies with complex social structures. In a bumblebee colony, there is one fertile queen, many non-reproducing ...