We’ve departed from the glistening shores of Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef and spent the last two weeks learning about terrestrial ecology since I last wrote. We went from snorkeling daily to ...

In the Peruvian Amazon, native stingless bees are helping beekeepers and their communities by producing honey and pollinating local plants. Stingless bees, also known as meliponine bees, surround a ...

Mathematically speaking, the honeycombs grow like crystals. Tim Heard via Royal Society Publishing The same mathematical model that explains how crystals grow can also explain how tropical stingless ...

They may be tiny and stingless but there's nothing sweet and innocent about a species of native Sugarbag bee when it goes to war over a coveted honey-filled hive. A study by behavioural ecologist Dr ...

Some stingless bees seem to be able to choose whether to become a worker or the queen – but thousands of contenders for the throne are executed in each hive. About one-fifth of all Melipona beecheii ...