Unprecedented images show how the insects cook invaders alive, stay warm or cool, and socialize. With tubular tongues, western honeybees in Langen, Germany, slurp up water to carry back to their ...
Intriguing examples of craftiness, deception and dishonesty in nature. Creatures camouflaged, the harmless mimicking the ...
Fake news THE Foreign ministry came to the aid of MP Karsten Honge, from the Socialist People’s Party (SF) following phony ...
Once the temps drop and snowflakes begin to fall, it’s easy to assume that insects have simply disappeared. And while many do ...
The species has fangs that produce a painful bite, like a wasp sting, resulting in a range of unpleasant symptoms that can last for days ...
The victory over a species given the alarming title of “murder hornet” comes as a relief to ... insects are able to destroy an entire honey bee hive in a couple of hours and take the larvae ...
In the U.S., around 72 people a year die from bee and hornet stings ... and the nonprofit Invasive Species Centre in Canada has said the hornet is also considered eradicated there.
Hover flies vary in size and habitat, and a lot of them mimic bees and wasps – but unlike four-winged bees and wasps, flies have only two. “How I always find out if something is a syrphid fly, other ...
The hornet has recently destroyed some 40,000 beehives in Lazio, Campania and Molise, officials said. "Despite being a native species in Italy, the Vespa Orientalis is behaving as if it were an alien ...
An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...
New research has found an insect species with markings that are so black that they’re ‘superblack’ or ‘ultrablack’, absorbing ...