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

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

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, ...

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

I never realized how fuzzy a bumble bee is until I got to hold one between my fingertips. It feels like a furry black and yellow bear, buzzing with its tiny body, wriggling with its legs. The ...

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 ...

The bee was once found in roughly half of the U.S. Now, rare sightings have been limited to about a dozen states.

Bumblebees are only an inch long, but they help power the global food system. Roughly one-third of the food we grow depends ...