Most bees happily gather nectar and pollen from flowers for food, but there are exceptions. Bees are actually wasps that adopted a vegetarian lifestyle in the dim and distant past – and vulture bees ...

Most people picture bees as hard workers gathering pollen and building nests. Many species do exactly that. But a surprising ...

My friend Trip Lamb’s recent photographs from Africa reinforced for me the value of vicarious ecology, which I define as enjoying someone else’s outdoor experiences. Vicarious ecology offers ways to ...

Carrion-eater gut bacteria help vulture bees ditch nectar for meat By David Szondy November 24, 2021 A vulture bee, which has been found to have a microbiome distinctly different from other bees ...

One of the more fascinating and beautiful families of birds in Africa is one we don’t see in the Western Hemisphere, Meropidae, the family of Bee-eaters. The name Meropidae is derived from Merops, ...

At first, it might not seem strange to see a few bees near your house. Bees often fly around gardens, balconies, and other open areas looking for flowers. But if you see the same thing happening over ...