Symmetry is everywhere, and for many different reasons. Humans find symmetrical faces more attractive, and symmetrical buildings, like the Taj Mahal, aesthetically pleasing. Most animals also have ...

The traps also allowed the team to identify and confirm brood parasitism by nomad (or "cuckoo") bees (Nomada imbricata), which emerge later than A. regularis and at a slower rate, as they wait for the ...

Solitary bees, representing the majority of bee diversity, perform indispensable pollination services in natural ecosystems and agricultural landscapes. Unlike social species, each female solitary bee ...

Insects rarely survive in fossilized form, but a strange series of events somehow killed and preserved these brooding bees for millenniums. By Sarah Derouin A research team was combing the coastline ...

The soft ground of the dead in upstate New York is buzzing with swarms of the living—the largest group of ground-nesting bees ever recorded worldwide. “It’s a massive aggregation of bee nests,” says ...

X-ray micro-computed tomography views of a male Eucera bee (ventral) inside a sealed cocoon. View obtained in the ICTP ElettramicroCT, Trieste's Elettra synchrotron radiation facility in Italy. The ...