Bees are frequently associated with large queen-serving colonies featuring hundreds if not thousands of insects. In actuality, that’s usually not the case. “Most bees are solitary. They lay their eggs ...

Nature can be pretty metal when it wants, and a testament to this is the recent discovery that bees sometimes use hollowed ...

Researchers have found in the leftovers of owl spread out in a Dominican Republic cave, nests made by ancient bees.

And, researchers have just discovered, ancient bees would use the bones’ empty tooth sockets as nests. A new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science documents this discovery, which ...

Laying eggs may seem like a simple way to reproduce compared to human birth, but biologist Carin Bondar says bird moms are the micromanagers of... Eggs and the genius of bird moms Part 2 of the TED ...

“When California was wild, it was one sweet bee garden throughout its entire length, north and south and all the way across from the snowy Sierra to the ocean,” wrote John Muir in 1894’s “The ...

Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode The Birds and the bees. Laying eggs may seem like a simple way to reproduce compared to human birth, but biologist Carin Bondar says bird moms are the ...