Authorities have located a giant 40 litre European wasp nest in a suburban area, warning residents about the invasive pest.

Bees and wasps are vanishing each winter, or so we thought. Hidden in attics, deep underground, and inside expanding nests, a ...

Queen bumblebees have sparser hair on their tongues than worker bees, which makes them less efficient at lapping up nectar, ...

Albany residents are being urged to keep an eye out for European wasps after a large nest was removed last week from Mira Mar area thanks to the ...

Bumblebee enthusiast Lesley Hamamoto of Sacramento, a UC Davis alumna who remembers well the entomology class she took from ...

During spring, when queen bumblebees first emerge from hibernation to start their nests, they work incredibly hard foraging ...

But, not so for bumblebees, where the queen is larger but otherwise physically indistinguishable from her workers. In a study ...

The density of fine hairs on bumblebees’ tongues determines how much nectar they can collect — and workers put queen bees to shame.

These vulnerable bees have been living alongside this seemingly unbeatable prey for millions of years. But they've got a ...