In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable ...

A century ago, a psychologist named Wolfgang Köhler proved that chimpanzees could solve complex ...

Bumble bees are the brainboxes of the insect world, suggests new research. The garden pollinators are able to solve puzzles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The queen, on the right with a larger, darker body, is bigger than the worker bees in the colony and lives several times longer.

A casual walk through an Ithaca cemetery led to the discovery of a gigantic hidden bee population — roughly 5.5 million ground-nesting bees packed beneath the soil. Scientists believe it may be one of ...