The life cycle of a honey bee has been captured on film by a beekeeper in north Wales over the course of a year and is being shown to schoolchildren. The film made in the Ceiriog Valley aims to spread ...

After cold winters, invertebrates such as honeybees and paper wasps seem to disappear and then suddenly return in large ...

Biologists tested a variation of the reproductive ground plan hypothesis in solitary, ground-nesting bees of south central Washington State. Their findings could shed light on development of division ...

A Hunt’s bumblebee queen occupies a white flower in Laramie. Michael Dillon, a professor in the UW Department of Zoology and Physiology, recently received a three-year, $398,251 National Science ...

1. Introduction -- 2. Bee phylogeny, bee diversity, and the distinction between solitary and social bees -- 3. The solitary bee life cycle -- 4. Alternative male mating tactics : the race to be first ...