Bees

New studies in bees and chimps challenge the long-held assumption that only humans can learn from innovative peers

Computer modeling explains a key facet of bees’ decision-making skills—something only seen previously in humans and other primates

Tiny, soccer-playing bees raise questions about the inner lives of invertebrates

A new theory may change the debate over evolution and self-interest among ants, bees and other social bugs

Our understanding of how insects fly didn’t explain how mosquitoes managed to stay on the wing. It took eight slow-motion cameras to help researchers reveal how mosquito wing beats shape the air to give the insect extra lift.

This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on March 29, 2017. It is a Nature Video production.

Quadcopters appear to be a relatively benign tool to study the behavior and numbers of wetland birds. Christopher Intagliata reports

The title of this article probably is an overstatement. Perhaps instead it should have been ‘a small subset of people in Reno, and possibly in Vegas (because everything you can think of exists there) celebrated pollinators for a week.

Working in the field of animal behaviour means that around World Cup season it’s hard to avoid being sent links to so-called ‘psychic’ animals that predict the outcome of matches, such as Paul the octopus, Leon the porcupine and Anton the tamarin.

The insects rely on more than the sun as a compass

It’s the first documentation of insects incorporating plastic trash into nests