Orchid bees, which help pollinate species from at least 30 plant families and play a big role in Brazil’s agriculture, have long been under threat from land-use change. Data from 1996-1997 from the ...

A specimen from the genus Euglossa collected during the study in Rondônia, Brazil. Credit: K. Christopher Brown A survey of orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondônia, carried out in the ...

Blue-green orchid bees zip through increasingly scarce patches of tropical forest to pollinate rare flowers. For the first time, researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute track unique ...

In the tropical forest of Barro Colorado Island, Panama, metallic blue, green, gold and red bees follow the fragrances of flowering orchids. Male euglossines, or orchid bees, are wild New World bees ...

A New York State Museum scientist is one of several researchers who have become the first to use tiny radio transmitters to track bees over long distances in a forest habitat, yielding new insight ...

Pollinator Week is coming up, a whole week to celebrate the pollinators of the world. Pollinators such as bees, butterflies, bats, moths, and birds are all essential in protecting the environment.

The University of Kansas houses the world’s largest bee research collection, with more than half a million specimens, including parasitic “vampire bees,” iridescent orchid bees, and a rediscovered gia ...

The species were recorded in the Canandé Biological Reserve in the Chocó-Darién rainforest, according to the study. Photo from Hernández Hernández, de Oliveira, Diaz-Guevara, Alarcón-Ortiz, ...