A homeowner trying to tackle a wasp problem with a can of expanding foam reportedly turned a small-but-frustrating pest issue ...

A beehive operates more like a democracy than a monarchy. In fact, US bee researcher Thomas D. Seeley describes a colony’s social structure as a ‘bee democracy’, where many decisions are made ...

I discovered a massive bee colony tucked inside the stucco overhang of this Santa Rosa ranch. In this video I carefully open the wall, expose the hive and transfer the brood and honeycomb into frames ...

Honeybees have long depended entirely on flower pollen for a group of essential fats called sterols, nutrients they cannot ...

Not all stinging insects play by the same rules, and the difference between a one-and-done sting versus a relentless repeated assault comes down to some surprisingly ancient biology that shapes how ...

Naked mole-rats are wonderfully strange. First off, they're awesomely cute or terrifyingly ugly, depending on your taste, ...

It’s tough being a female in a naked mole-rat colony; they live a long life of servitude, maintaining the tunnels of their ...

Nearly four years of painstaking fieldwork, laboratory analysis and scientific collaboration have culminated in a landmark ...

Barbara Wallraff is a writer and editor in Cambridge. She writes The Wordshop on Substack.

The Friends of the C.H. Booth Library is indebted to the many local institutions that partnered with us to make our 50th annual book sale a success. Town officials assist us ...

Ridglea Christian Church deployed a colony of about 22,000 bees earlier this year to help garden managers Anissa Garcia and Joseph Hughes with tending the Ridglea Giving Garden’s abundant field of ...