honey bees

Cuando digo abeja hada, ¿qué te viene a la mente? ¿Pequeña? ¿Adornada con joyas o con brillo?

The smallest bee on the earth, Perdita minima, or mini fairy bee is just 2mm-the width of a grain of rice. Though they may seem easy to miss, they are numerous and right under our noses.

I’d like to tell you a crime story. But is it still a crime story if it’s about the natural world? I’ll tell it and then let you decide for yourself.

Bees are considered some of the most important animals to humans. Researchers and orchard management teams around the globe are working together to find alternative species to pollinate our crops for food as honey bees are becoming harder to manage. The upcoming meeting explores these alternative pollinators.

Dr. Joseph Wilson knows a little something about Vespa mandarinia, the species commonly called the Asian giant hornet. “These are social wasps, they have…