entomology

UGA alumnus Jamie Ellis will begin as the director of the UGA Bee Program on June 1. The post Renowned honey bee scientist returns to lead UGA Bee Program appeared first on UGA Today .

Humidity can temporarily turn metallic sweat bees from blue-green to copper-green.

Scientific Data, Published online: 27 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41597-026-07300-5 Checklist and trait dataset of ground-dwelling arthropods across urban habitats in four major Italian cities

Tiny cone ants in Arizona have been seen cleaning much larger harvester ants, even inside their open jaws. The unusual behavior may benefit both species and has never been recorded before. In the deserts of southeastern Arizona, researchers have observed an unusual interaction between two very different ants. Large harvester ants gather outside the nests [...]

North American sweat bees change color depending on the surrounding humidity. It might be a more widespread phenomenon among insects.

Scientists at UC Riverside have found a clever new way to outsmart termites—by turning their own instincts against them. Using a natural pine scent called pinene, which smells like food to termites, researchers can lure the pests straight toward a targeted dose of insecticide hidden in wood. The result is dramatically higher kill rates—jumping from about 70% to over 95%—without the need for wides…

A seemingly ordinary cemetery is a sprawling underground habitat for extraordinary numbers of bees.

A cemetery hosts millions of vital pollinator bees, showing their ecological importance and the need to preserve their habitats. To cut costs, Rachel Fordyce used to park for free at Ithaca’s East Hill Plaza and walk through East Lawn Cemetery to her job as a technician in an entomology lab at Cornell University. One day [...]

Beneath a peaceful cemetery in Ithaca, New York, millions of wild bees are quietly doing one of the most important jobs in nature—helping plants grow and reproduce. Scientists have discovered that around 5.5 million bees live underground at East Lawn Cemetery, forming one of the largest known groups of ground-nesting bees in the world. The […] The post Hidden city of bees: 5.5 million pollinators…

A newly discovered beetle on campus has led to the first major update in Japanese ladybird classification in 50 years. A routine look at a campus pine tree has led to an unexpected scientific discovery. At Kyushu University in Japan, researchers have identified a previously unknown species of ladybird beetle living in plain sight, underscoring [...]

Graveyards are teeming with life The post Largest Known Collection of Bees Discovered Living in a Cemetery appeared first on Nautilus .

The discovery began by chance in 2022 when a Cornell University technician noticed large numbers of bees in the cemetery and brought samples to the lab

With a new exhibit on insects opening at Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence, Steve Alm and Casey Johnson in URI's Bee Lab answer questions on the local bee population.

Deep beneath this quiet New York cemetery lived a staggering number of bees. Scientists did not expect what they would find when they began investigating.

The whopping bee aggregation is one of the largest and oldest ever recorded, according to a new study

Baby caterpillars have figured out how to get themselves the royal treatment in certain ant colonies – getting carried around like precious cargo, fed on demand, guarded and being rescued from danger. But why would ants give this celebrity status to a caterpillar? The secret lies in perfect mimicry: the caterpillar copies not just the queen ant’s chemical scent, but the exact rhythm of her vibrat…