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

In a groundbreaking move with international significance, insects–specifically stingless bees from the Peruvian Amazon–have ...

A Peruvian scientist and her team are working together to make sure stingless bees are around for generations to come by ...

In the Peruvian Amazon, a tiny pollinator has become the unlikely protagonist of a legal revolution. Local authorities have ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...