When bumble bees fight invasive Argentine ants for food, bees may win an individual skirmish but end up with less to feed the hive. Bumble bees are already under pressure from habitat loss, disease, ...

Whatever they are doing, bees take their jobs seriously, be it pollinating plants or nursing their young. They protect their homes, too, with dramatic tactics like producing shimmering waves to stave ...

Be it the news or the dwindling number of creatures hitting your windscreens, it will not have evaded you that the insect world’s in bad shape. So, what can be done? Given pesticides’ role in the ...