For a long time, insects have barely registered in environmental law. Even as scientists warned that pollinators were disappearing and food systems were becoming more fragile, bees and other insects ...

Like ants and termites, several species of stingless bees have specialized guards or soldiers to defend their colonies from attacks by natural enemies. The differentiation of these guardian bees, ...

Stingless bees are so ancient that they shared the planet with the dinosaurs. For the past 80 million years, stingless bees have been pollinating 80% of the Amazon’s flora, including such crops as ...

The western honey bee (Apis mellifera) that has a sting for use in defense is common in Western Europe. Stingless bees, on the other hand, are mainly at home in the tropics and subtropics. They are a ...

The mystery of what creates the rare, healthy sugar found in stingless bee honey, has been solved by researchers at The University of Queensland, in collaboration with Queensland Health Forensic and ...

Stingless bees produce a healthier honey, uniquely rich in a rare sugar, called trehalulose, which may have benefits ranging from ranking low on the glycaemic index (GI) to displaying antioxidant ...

Experts say the bee species keeps the Amazon's ecosystems pollinated and produces honey with medicinal properties Miryan Delgado/Amazon Research Internacional Researchers are working to save stingless ...

The socially intelligent pollinators are a keystone species crucial to the health of ecosystems and food security across the world. Learn more about bees in National Geographic’s two-part documentary ...