Do you have questions about birds, bugs, bees, butterflies or other wildlife? Send your questions to Wild Things and we will try to find the answers. Henry (age 7) asks: “What kind of ants are most ...

If you’ve spent any time outdoors in Kentucky this spring, you may have noticed those large, black bees hovering about the ...

When a species reproduces, typically, each parent passes on one of their two versions (alleles) of a given gene to their offspring. But not all alleles play fair in their quest to be passed onto ...

Carpenter bees cause damage to untreated wood by making holes where they live and nest.Use insecticides, traps, essential oils, and wood replacement to keep these pests at bay.Plugging holes can work, ...

Animals that rely exclusively on parthenogenesis to reproduce, like the flowerpot snake, are called obligate parthenogens, ...

Discover the Unique Personalities of Bees in NATURE’S “My Garden of a Thousand Bees” Wednesday, May 14 at 8 pm on PBS Wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn documents his buzzworthy discoveries... Read More ...

Male carpenter bees lack stingers, and though females do have them, they are docile and don’t sting unless handled or ...

(Beyond Pesticides, April 25, 2025) A novel study in Chemosphere finds impacts on male fertility ... yield reduced female offspring, our data provide an additional mechanistic explanation for recently ...

The male carpenter bee doesn't sting and the female can, but rarely does. Unfortunately, the bees might be causing damage to ...

A director has proposed a year-long ban on staging the works of white male writers. Such a ban would include everyone from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Ibsen and Pinter. Katie Gilchrist, an American ...