Beetles are classified in the order Coleoptera (sheath-wing). The front pair of wings is hardened into cases (called elytra) ...

because they’ve got the little seed pods so it’s safe for them to drink in because bees can’t swim,” Preston said, noting the multiple holes in the insect’s thorax. The animals are able ...

“We used AprilTags attached to each bee’s thorax to provide unique identification numbers that allowed the system to track in-and-out events throughout the foraging season of the colony ...

Some bumble bee species may reach as long as one inch. Their bodies have three segments, the head, thorax, and abdomen. Most of their bodies are covered in thick, fuzzy black and yellow hair in ...

Dragonflies use their heads to eat and see, the thorax provides power to the wings ... They eat mosquitoes, midges, flies, bees, butterflies, and other small insects that they can easily catch ...

Most of the head and parts of the thorax are a dull red (see Fig ... there is no cause for alarm except for individuals who are especially sensitive to bee or wasp stings. Female adults often dig ...

The anterior and posterior thorax and the first and fourth abdomen are yellow ... resulting in queens being more difficult in size than workers. The queen bees and the bees can sting. Unlike bee ...

Entomologist Dr. Karl Magnacca said he and his team had just spent four days in the rainforest in Molokai last year when they ...

Maria de Lourdes Zollo is the CEO and Co-Founder of Bee. She previously worked at Twitter as a Senior Product Manager and creator. Maria de Lourdes Zollo attended Università degli Studi di Milano. Bee ...

The show, narrated by Tom Hanks, offers glimpses of critters large and small. And capturing that footage is no small feat.

We say hard workers are “busy as a bee,” but in a recent study, honey bees seemed more like employees in an office building. Entomologists and engineers in the U.S. glued tiny QR codes to the ...