Experts say the bee species keeps the Amazon's ecosystems pollinated and produces honey with medicinal properties ...

They are found in tropical regions across the world, and about half of the 500 known species live in the Amazon ...

Learn how stingless bees quietly sustain Amazonian forests — and how a new law is changing what happens when they’re harmed.

In a global first, Peru recognizes stingless bees as rights-bearing species, reshaping how insects fit into environmental law ...

I n a first for nature and the planet, an insect has been given official legal rights. The revolutionary move comes from Peru ...

Two Peruvian municipalities reportedly granted legal rights to stingless bees, marking what multiple reports call the first ...

Urban wild bees carry microbial signatures in their guts that reveal stresses of city living, from limited food to pollution ...

Insects are the primary pollinators of most flowers and crops. Niklas_Weidner/500px via Getty Images Rachel Mallinger: A lot of different insects pollinate. Insects visit flowers for many purposes, ...

Of the 100 crop species that provide 90 percent of the world’s food, more than 70 percent of them are pollinated by bees. Nuts, fruits and even root vegetables; they’re all here thanks to bees. Bees ...

Brooklyn’s pedestrian plazas will be quite literally buzzing with activity this spring as the city expands The Pollinator Port Project, a program to offer refuge to local bees and other pollinators.

Honey bees aren’t the only insects that pollinate crops, but we often overlook or lump together all other, non-bee pollinators – flies, beetles, moths, butterflies, wasps, ants, birds, and bats, just ...