Unlike bees, wasps don’t store food for the winter and the majority of wasps die off when temperatures fall below freezing.

A wasp sting is painful, but only dangerous to those who are allergic.

At this time of year, you might notice an uptick in buzzing visitors around your patio, compost pile or refuse bins. The striped yellow, orange and black pollinators we laud in spring and summer seem ...

In this video, I show how I help homeowners when a bee swarm takes up residence inside an exterior wall, thanks to some missed stucco gaps. Using my firefighting background, I opt for a safe liquid ...

Bees can turn awkward spaces into tidy hives. New research shows how they adapt their comb-building playbook when surfaces become irregular, using clever fixes that keep the hive functional. The ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is opening a 60-day public comment period on a proposed rule to list Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. This determination ...

The greater honeyguide learned to lead humans to beehives, luring them with the promise of honey so they’d unlock the wax the birds eat. The following is an excerpt from The Call of the Honeyguide: ...

When I get Don Shump on the phone he says he just finished up an emergency call with PGW. Not about bills, but about removing a bee colony under a manhole cover. “It’s something that, in my 20 years ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Glenview area home is bee-free after a Bartlett company was able to remove tens of thousands of the buzzing insects that had taken up residence behind a wall. The bees were ...

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. MY EARS, LIKE SWELLING. IT FELT LIKE A PINCH. LIKE A LITTLE ZAP. AYER DESCRIBES THE THREE STINGS SHE SUFFERED ON THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. SHE SAYS IT HAPPENED RIGHT WHEN SHE WAS ...

Bees are vital pollinators facing unprecedented pressure from human intervention, including climate change, habitat loss, and introduced parasites (IPBES, 2016; Potts et al., 2010). Recent research is ...