The tiny torture device that is a honey bee’s barbed sting could be among the most sophisticated of venom-delivery systems in ...

A honey bee (Apis mellifera) stings a victim, and the stinger will still pump venom into a wound even after it has fully ...

A bee's sting can hurt pretty badly, and researchers in Australia have filmed a close-up view of what happens to a bee's ...

Bumble bees—vital and fuzzy pollinators—face unique threats amidst global insect declines. If the insect world has a fuzzy, charismatic cutie, it’s surely the humble bumble bee. While insect ...

A disembodied bee stinger pierces into a skin-like gel. (Ramirez-Esquivel et al, 2026., CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) The sharp stab of a ...

In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable is that the bees had never been trained. The findings challenge the ...

Bumble bees respond to physical disturbance of their nest with a sequence of defensive behaviors that lasts up to 10 minutes, according to a study by Sajedeh Sarlak at the University of Konstanz, ...