A series of experiments shows that bees respond differently to tastes depending on their internal states, hinting that they ...

Bees respond to tasty treats or plain water based on context, a study that may provide support for establishing insect sentience shows ...

Bumble bees astonished researchers by inventing a new way to reach a hidden reward, despite never being taught the trick. The ...

A new study builds on a wave of new work that is daring to suggest insects might have a form of consciousness.

When bumble bees fight invasive Argentine ants for food, bees may win an individual skirmish but end up with less to feed the hive. Bumble bees are already under pressure from habitat loss, disease, ...

A rare North American bumble bee may have been on a path toward extinction long before modern human impacts, suggesting that its long-term genetic vulnerability made it especially fragile and less ...

The research will look at rare species of bumblebee in the machair grasslands of the Hebrides.

A pesticide approved for being safer than its predecessors may be quietly sabotaging the very insects farmers depend on, and ...

Some of California’s most crucial insects seem to have gone missing. A new study suggests that populations of once-abundant bumble bee species in California may have experienced serious decline, after ...

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Several species of California bumble bees have gone missing in the first statewide census of the fuzzy pollinators in 40 years. Several species of California bumble bees have gone missing in the first ...