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You’ve probably seen a hoverfly. It’s a small, bee-like insect that hovers over your flowers in summer. Though they look like ...

Honey bees follow personal and highly precise flight routes using landmarks and memory, according to new research.

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The personal backstory to 20 of the most exciting research projects that the author has been part of during his 50 years of ...

Blue orchard bee. Photo: Scott Bauer. Minnesota is home to over 500 bee species. Some live in large, social colonies, but most are solitary, with fewer than a dozen bees per nest. People manage a few, ...

California photographer and conservationist Krystle Hickman is on a quest to document hundreds of species of native bees, which are under threat by climate change and habitat loss, some of it caused b ...