Blister beetles are born with a mission: Infiltrate a bee’s nest. And they waste no time getting to work. The larvae emerge from their eggs by the hundreds, climb the nearest blade of grass and ...

When southern Rocky Mountain forests are viewed from a distance these days, it may not look like much is left. Large swaths of dead, standing Engelmann spruce trees tell the tale of a severe regional ...

Sept. 11 (UPI) --Blister beetles are chemical con artists, and according to new research, they can adapt their trickery to dupe a variety of bee species. During one of several larval stages, Meloe ...

A beetle that tricks bees into carrying it into their nests where it can live off their pollen, nectar and eggs adapts its deceptions to local hosts. A beetle that tricks bees into carrying it into ...

A recently discovered beetle set off alarms among beekeepers, but the Washington Department of Agriculture tested it and found the insect was not what everyone thought. "As the climate warms going ...

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Japanese beetles are going to be horrendous this year. They are widespread in the Brown County area, and according to our UW-Extension state entomologist, the Japanese beetle populations are likely to ...

Researchers found significant increases in floral abundance and wild bee diversity in outbreak-affected forests, compared to similar, undisturbed forest. When southern Rocky Mountain forests are ...