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1,506 results for: Bees

  1. Animals

    Caiman tears make a salty snack

    An ecologist observed a bee and a butterfly hovering around a caiman, engaging in lacryphagous behavior, slurping up the crocodilian’s tears.

    By Bethany Brookshire
  2. Ecosystems

    Do your bit for bumblebees

    The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and its partners have launched the Bumble Bee Watch website to track sightings. When you see a bee bumbling around, snap a photo.

    By Bethany Brookshire
  3. Animals

    Some animals’ internal clocks follow a different drummer

    Circadian clocks in some animals tick-tock to a different beat.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  4. Life

    Big study raises worries about bees trading diseases

    Pathogens may jump from commercial colonies to the wild.

    By Susan Milius
  5. Animals

    Where an ant goes when it’s gotta go

    Scientists found black garden ants defecating in certain spots inside their nests. The researchers say these spots serve as ant toilets.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  6. Animals

    Methylation turns a wannabe bumblebee into a queen

    Epigenetic changes to bumblebee DNA turns a worker into a reproductive pseudo-queen, suggesting that genomic imprinting could be responsible for the bumblebee social system.

    By Bethany Brookshire
  7. Computing

    Barrel jellyfish may hunt with new kind of math

    Barrel jellyfish use a new type of mathematical movement pattern to forage for food, a new study suggests.

    By Ashley Yeager
  8. Animals

    Year in review: Insect, bird evolution revisited

    Insects got an entirely new family tree after an extensive genetic analysis rearranged the creatures' relations.

    By Susan Milius
  9. Plants

    Sexually deceived flies not hopelessly dumb

    Pollinators tricked into mating with a plant become harder to fool a second time.

    By Susan Milius
  10. Animals

    Ten real-life Halloween horrors in the natural world

    Vampires and witches are nothing compared to mind-controlling parasites, nose ticks and antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  11. Plants

    How female ferns make younger neighbors male

    Precocious female ferns release a partly formed sexual-identity hormone, and nearby laggards finish it and go masculine.

    By Susan Milius
  12. Life

    Epic worldwide effort explores all of insect history

    A whopper of a genetic analysis fits all living orders of insects into one genealogical evolutionary tree.

    By Susan Milius