Bees, wasps, and ants belong to the order Hymenoptera. Bees feed on flowers; wasps hunt other insects; ants "feed on a whole variety of things," from flowers to dead animals, says University of ...

About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimize reproduction, making pollination one of ...

The most highly social animals form tightly knit colonies and include all ants and termites, some bees and wasps, and a few other organisms. Many social behaviors of animals are adaptive ...

Researchers in Japan have discovered a new defensive tactic employed by bees: catapulting ants like rocks from slingshots. A study of Asian honeybees recently revealed this method. A curious ant ...

Traumatomutilla bifurca is the first known ultra-black member of the Hymenoptera order, which includes more than 150,000 species of ants, wasps, sawflies and bees. Along with some butterflies ...

It is called entomophobia which means an irrational and uncontrollable fear (phobia) of insects, usually a specific insect or group of insects (wasps and bees in your son's case). Not many people ...

These parasites are found throughout the social Hymenoptera (i.e., bees, wasps and ants), and have been most intensely studied in ants. The social parasitism that I address here is restricted to ...

Insects and arachnids become more active as it gets warmer. From bees to scorpions, here's what kind of bugs you'll see in ...

Study subjects include diverse social insects and arthropods (bees, ants, wasps, termites, and social spiders), and Neotropical birds. He collects data mainly in the Neotropics but with additional ...

Pollinator species include wasps, ants, butterflies, beetles, moths and bees. There are more than 250 species of bee in the UK, including the honey bee that normally lives in hives that are managed by ...