Most of the time, bees do their own thing, foraging for food and raising a colony. But if a nest is too close to your ...

Fast forward a year, and those 'wasps' were actually honey bees that had set up a nest in a boarded-up chimney of the County Down house she now lives in with her husband. The honeycomb they ...

On a foggy day, Kirk Visscher examines honey bees settling on the nest box they have chosen and to which the swarm has flown. The camera is recording the flight tracks of bees against the sky.

Almost 90% of flowering plants need pollinators to reproduce, so bees are important for ecosystem stability. Like all animals, pollinators need two basic things: food and a place to nest. I've created ...

If you've noticed large bees buzzing around your deck, siding or other wooden parts of your house, you're likely dealing with a carpenter bee infestation. While these bees may look intimidating and ...

It should have two rooms: one filled with wood shavings for the queen to breed in, the other an empty compartment where the rest of the bees live. Bumblebees may also nest in tussocks of grass or ...

There are 7,000 species of wasps living in the UK, nine of which build nests to house a colony. Like bees, each wasp species is either social or solitary. Those that prefer family life build nests to ...

Mirroring the mechanisms that make human faces and bodies—and those of many multicellular organisms—symmetrical, bee colonies build symmetrical nests when they are placed on either side of a ...