bees

Attacks by giant hornets, relatives of murder hornets, on honeybee hives are absolutely horrifying. Worker hornets…

Last week—in what might somehow qualify as good news for 2020—bug scientists in Washington State reported…

Finally, some good news this year.

Entomologists in Washington have confirmed the existence of a nest of Asian giant hornets, more fondly known as…

Washington State officials are frantically searching for a colony of Asian giant hornets—also known as murder…

The murder-hornet-hunting heroes at the Washington State Department of Agriculture have successfully trapped a male…

The Washington State Department of Agriculture has successfully trapped its first Asian giant hornet, aka murder…

It’s been a bad year for bees. According to the preliminary results of the University of Maryland’s annual survey,…

The fucking murder hornets are spreading.

Bumblebees need pollen from flowers to survive. But increasingly, the creatures are waking up earlier in the year…

With all this talk of murder hornets, our thoughts turned to the disaster movies of the 1970s that blatantly…

Hey 2020, can you chill for, like, five minutes?

I simply must inform you of this crucial bee fact: When bees get trapped in water, they use their wings as hydrofoils

The bee population is plummeting and the ecosystems and food systems that depend on their pollination are declining.…

Excellent news here at Gizmodo, where I presume what’s left of our blogger-chewed Forbidden Sandwich is still…

Happy Sunday evening! Hopefully the events of the last week have been going better for you than YouTube, which spent…

It’s a noble cause—trying to help bees thrive as populations face catastrophic collapse. One of the ways folks have…

A new experiment in which bees were trained to associate symbols with numbers suggests we can communicate with…

When Kate Smith brings her samples into the lab, she has to wear a special suit. Even a speck of dust brought in on…

Hopefully your week has been better than leading New York politicians, like NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor…