The life cycle of a honey bee has been captured on film by a beekeeper in north Wales over the course of a year and is being shown to schoolchildren. The film made in the Ceiriog Valley aims to spread ...

Biologists tested a variation of the reproductive ground plan hypothesis in solitary, ground-nesting bees of south central Washington State. Their findings could shed light on development of division ...

A Hunt’s bumblebee queen occupies a white flower in Laramie. Michael Dillon, a professor in the UW Department of Zoology and Physiology, recently received a three-year, $398,251 National Science ...

1. Introduction -- 2. Bee phylogeny, bee diversity, and the distinction between solitary and social bees -- 3. The solitary bee life cycle -- 4. Alternative male mating tactics : the race to be first ...