Stingless bees are so ancient that they shared the planet with the dinosaurs. For the past 80 million years, stingless bees ...
Mice love to take shelter inside beehives. It’s a perfect spot for a mouse; warm and cozy with plenty of honey to eat.
In a remote corner of Peru’s central Amazon, a small, ancient pollinator has quietly rewritten legal history. Native ...
Two local ordinances granted rights to at least 175 stingless bee species in Peru, which are culturally and spiritually ...
They are found in tropical regions across the world, and about half of the 500 known species live in the Amazon ...
In a global first, Peru recognizes stingless bees as rights-bearing species, reshaping how insects fit into environmental law ...
Insects are the primary pollinators of most flowers and crops. Niklas_Weidner/500px via Getty Images Rachel Mallinger: A lot of different insects pollinate. Insects visit flowers for many purposes, ...
Of the 100 crop species that provide 90 percent of the world’s food, more than 70 percent of them are pollinated by bees. Nuts, fruits and even root vegetables; they’re all here thanks to bees. Bees ...
The world’s largest bee is a solitary insect known from a small cluster of islands in eastern Indonesia. Wallace’s giant bee, ...
Brooklyn’s pedestrian plazas will be quite literally buzzing with activity this spring as the city expands The Pollinator Port Project, a program to offer refuge to local bees and other pollinators.
ON HOW THIS COULD IMPACT MORE THAN BEES. MIKE: IT’S NOT EVERYDAY THAT YOU HEAR ABOUT INSECTS ON THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT, BUT THAT’S WHAT THE GAME COMMISSION IS GOING TO CONSIDER ONE WEEK FROM TODAY ...
Honey bees aren’t the only insects that pollinate crops, but we often overlook or lump together all other, non-bee pollinators – flies, beetles, moths, butterflies, wasps, ants, birds, and bats, just ...