Scientists have discovered the first case of male bees babysitting, and it turns out that these males often aren’t biological bee dads but hopeful stepdads of the youngsters. Females of a small bluish ...

Scientists recently identified a tropical sweat bee that’s male on its left side and female on its right side — a rare condition known as gynandromorphy Most animals are sexually dimorphic, where ...

Bees are among the most important pollinators on earth. They pollinate not only plants with beautiful flowers, but also many crops. But despite the insects' great importance for humans and nature, ...

Is complex social behavior genetically determined? Yes, as a team of biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) together with colleagues from Bochum and Paris discovered while studying ...

(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 ...

Pollen tainted with neonicotinoid pesticides could interfere with male honeybee reproduction, a new study finds. After bee colonies fed on pollen spiked with the pesticides thiamethoxam and ...

Do pesticides have anything to do with the decline in bee populations? A research team has now found a connection between fenbuconazole and the insects' mating behavior. Bees are among the most ...