Bees can get drunk from fermented nectar, and guard bees may eject intoxicated foragers to protect the hive from harm.

Curious where bees and wasps go in winter? Learn how these buzzing insects survive the cold months and what happens to hives and nests until spring.

Working together can help a group of individuals survive a storm. This isn’t just an important lesson for humans, it’s also precisely how honeybees survive high winds. As they cluster into a hanging ...

Bees adjust their speed to keep turning forces constant, new research shows. The findings can be applied to robots and autonomous vehicles. If you've ever lost your balance standing on a bus that ...

This is one of the most frequently asked questions from Lake Erie Nature & Science Center visitors during the winter months. Despite freezing temperatures and a lack of flowers, honey bees survive the ...

All around the world bees are busy turning nectar from flowers into sweet, golden honey. That’s what I found out from my friend Brandon Hopkins, a honey bee researcher at Washington State University.

Enjoy this look at how bees see in ultraviolet and even sense electric fields! Spring is in the air!! We're all thawing out from winter's chill, and for bees and flowers this season is about one thing ...

Bees apparently have a grasp of basic math, including addition and subtraction, a new study has discovered. The study, published in Science Advances, reveals that bees have incredibly powerful brains ...

Bees are fantastic pollinators. Without them, ecosystems would not thrive. Unfortunately, over the last 15 years, there has been a significant decline in both bee colonies and individual bees due to ...

Knowing your winged and stinging insects is pretty important for homeowners, both so they can better understand the biodiversity on their property and so that they know which insects pose danger to ...

Now our new study shows that honeybees too can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much like we humans do with Arabic and Roman numerals. Language is the ability to learn and use a system of ...