The number and diversity of insects is declining worldwide. Some studies suggest that their biomass has almost halved since ...

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 ...

Bumblebees get their name from the word bumble, which means to buzz, hum, or move about awkwardly or indistinctly. All 250 ...

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

When their nests are disturbed, carpenter ants bite in defense ... and a massive ecological role as a keystone species. Similar to ants, bees live in colonies with complex social structures. In a ...

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

“Originally, I was selling carpenter bee traps, which catch carpenter bees and they die in them.” Abney said. “Then, I discovered, if I hang up an artificial hornets’ nest, they just lea ...

(Beyond Pesticides, April 25, 2025) A novel study in Chemosphere finds impacts on male fertility in a bee species (Osmia bicornis) with exposure to sulfoxaflor, a systemic sulfoximine insecticide with ...

A new study published today in the journal PLOS One reveals that combining bird observation data with land cover information provides more accurate predictions of numbers of wild bee species—a metric ...

As April winds down, get ready to look for the signs of the slow flying bumble bees that are really carpenter bees that will be drilling holes into your deck and wooden structures. Where was the ...