Here’s why carpenter bees are staring you down this spring ...

Museum collections have underpinned scientific research for centuries. But physical specimens in boxes and drawers don't ...

If you've noticed some large bees hovering around your backyard wooden deck or window frames, they may be carpenter bees. While we appreciate bees that act as pollinators in our gardens, these bees ...

When Whendi Grad met Garnett Puett in 1981 at the University of Washington art school, she didn’t know he was from a family of Hawaiian beekeepers. Whendi was studying textile design. Garnett was ...

Insects make up to 90% of all animal species on the planet, and most of them can be found in the tropics, the regions around ...

The Town of Riverhead unveiled its newest “litter critter” last week: a 4-by-7-foot wire sculpture of a bee designed to collect plastic bottles and cans. The sculpture, known as the Big Bee, sits in ...

We just wrapped the most deadly winter on record for commercial honey bees in the U.S. They not only make honey, they also pollinate more than a hundred U.S. crops here for a total of $18 billion in ...

Scientists rethink why giant insects once ruled the skies, finding oxygen may not explain their size or disappearance.