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 ...

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 ...

Now, according to conservationists, bumblebees have been starting to build nests in winter due to climate change, when they ...

The modular wall panels of that structure—which resembles an oversized an­tique room divider—were designed to house small, cavi­ty-nesting birds and hole-dwelling bees. The installation had a brief ...

REGISTER HERE. As their name suggests, ground bees are insects that nest in the ground, as opposed to more social bees that nest in the open or in tree cavities. Although bees can be beneficial to ...

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 ...

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 ...