Entomologist Dr. Jessica Ware joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the world of insects. Are cockroaches so resilient that they'd survive a nuclear war? Why do praying mantis ...

Rescue crews swarmed the scene to save the pollinators. Rescue workers in Washington state faced a precarious situation ...

A truck was hauling 70,000 pounds of beehives when it overturned in a rural county in northern Washington state, letting ...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — There was a buzz in the air Friday in northwestern Washington state as about 250 million honeybees ...

A study highlights how Nagaland’s native stingless bees not only enhance crop yields but also produce medicinal honey, ...

When most of us think of wasps, we automatically think of noisy insects whose stings hurt badly. They sting just like bees, ...

I got my first bee swarm call of the year a few weeks ago. With spring underway, this is the time for honey bee colonies to ...

They also pollinate about 35% of global crops. A honeybee colony has three types of bees: drone, worker, and queen. The queens lay up to 2000 eggs per day, with an average lifespan of 2 to 3 years.

It has so far built over 300 beehives, each capable of hosting up to 60,000 bees including the queen, drones and worker bees. Members of the community say they have become more aware through ...

A few days later she will leave the hive looking for places where male bees (drones ... Since the swarm contains a queen along with a large number of workers, swarms are seen by many beekeepers ...

HMS Queen Elizabeth was in Hamburg, Germany, when a drone visit raised suspicions about the China co-owned Tollerort container terminal. The Royal Navy’s HMS Queen Elizabeth arrived in Hamburg ...

They found that female worker bees and male drone bees each learned equally well ... They had visited the meadow early enough in the spring that queen bumblebees, which hibernate through the winter, ...