If you find a paper wasp nest near your home, what you should do next is largely dependent on its location, size, and the ...

Wasps are often viewed as scary insects to see flying around your home, but if you have an outdoor garden, their appearance ...

A large-scale experiment shows that warmth brings bees and wasps out of hibernation earlier—leaving some of them with poorer starting conditions. This is particularly true for species in cooler ...

Smoke pours over the colony of bees, dousing the air in a sweet, earthy smell of burning wood. Drake Elting holds the smoker ...

Millions of ground-nesting solitary bees of the Andrena regularis species call an Ithaca cemetery home. (Adapted from Hoge et ...

Have you noticed far more or far fewer bees in your garden lately, especially with your local wildflowers in full bloom?

For his project ‘De Oförtrutna’ (The Relentless), photographer Christer Björkman pictured Swedish scientists working in the spirit of Carl Linneaus, the botanist who created the modern taxonomic ...

An international team of scientists from Queen Mary University of London, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Biology Centre ...

A cemetery hosts millions of vital pollinator bees, showing their ecological importance and the need to preserve their habitats.

Krystle Hickman was photographing honeybees at Sepulveda Wildlife Basin when she noticed an unusual insect on a mustard plant ...

Climate warming is pushing bees and wasps to emerge earlier, but many have less energy - potentially affecting survival.

Get an up-close look at stunning pollinators and the National Geographic Explorers whose work puts a spotlight on them.