A trio of environmental specialists at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, in Japan, has found that Japanese honeybees sometimes resort to slapping ants with their wings to prevent their ...

Japanese honey bees are known to use their wings to protect their hives from intruding ants, but detailed observations of this behavior and its ecological significance have not been previously ...

Bees make honey as a long-lasting food source to survive periods when flowers do not bloom. Contrary to popular belief, honey is not bee vomit. Nectar is stored in a dedicated 'honey stomach', which ...

A bumblebee is observed flapping its wings in the fog of a vertical wind tunnel. Michael Dillon, a professor and the L. Floyd Clark Chair in the UW Department of Zoology and Physiology, and Jordan ...

Insects are thought to use specific chest muscles to actively open and close their wings. However, high-speed imaging reveals that rhinoceros beetles flap their hindwings to deploy them for flight, ...

A single universal equation can closely approximate the frequency of wingbeats and fin strokes made by birds, insects, bats and whales, despite their different body sizes and wing shapes, Jens ...