Two local ordinances granted rights to at least 175 stingless bee species in Peru, which are culturally and spiritually ...

Experts say the bee species keeps the Amazon's ecosystems pollinated and produces honey with medicinal properties ...

They are found in tropical regions across the world, and about half of the 500 known species live in the Amazon ...

I n a first for nature and the planet, an insect has been given official legal rights. The revolutionary move comes from Peru ...

In a remote corner of Peru’s central Amazon, a small, ancient pollinator has quietly rewritten legal history. Native ...

In a global first, Peru recognizes stingless bees as rights-bearing species, reshaping how insects fit into environmental law ...

Honey bees aren’t the only insects that pollinate crops, but we often overlook or lump together all other, non-bee pollinators – flies, beetles, moths, butterflies, wasps, ants, birds, and bats, just ...

Researchers have proposed a new model for the evolution of higher brain functions and behaviors in the Hymenoptera order of insects. The team compared the Kenyon cells, a type of neuronal cell, in the ...

Kansas City beekeeper Dan Krull checks a hive at Manheim Gardens in Midtown. The hive houses an early spring swarm he captured at the Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center. The swarm is ...

When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...

Dalan has created the first vaccine for honey bees that will protect against American Foulbrood. The vaccine is approved by the USDA. Female-founded insect biotech company Dalan Animal Health, Inc.

New research could help scientists track how climate change is impacting the birds and the bees... of honey bees. New research from the University of British Columbia and North Carolina State ...