Perhaps most interesting was that this bee also had a sting pointing outward from the female half of its body. Figure 1. A Frontal view of the head showing the bilateral split between sexes ...

“The sense of movement and intensity is shown at bee-level magnification and transforms what are little cactus bees into big competitors for a single female,' Rosamund 'Roz' Kidman Cox, Chair of ...

The Wallace's giant bee — Megachile pluto — towers over European honeybees. The female's size has been recorded as at least an inch and a half long, with a tongue that's nearly an inch long.

14.6-Million-Year-Old Fossil of a Female Bee Well Preserved in Organic Mudstone Discovered, Oldest Bee Specimen Bees are mostly seen buzzing around and working hard to turn nectar from flowers ...

These clever insects generate polyester-like plastic from a huge gland on the female bee's abdomen. This gland releases molecules that resemble Tinkertoys made of lactone compounds that recur ...