Bees & Wasps

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People & Wildlife

30+ books on insects and invertebrates, including books for children

Zoe Ball, Big Bee Challenge

BBC Radio 2 launches the Big Bee Challenge

Buff-tailed bumble-bee (Bombus terrestris) worker nectaring on scorpionweed (Phacelia tancetifolia) flower in conservation margin at RSPB's Hope Farm in Cambridgeshire. May 2011.

Identify Wildlife

How to identify spring bees with our illustrated guide

Honeybee on a flower. © Samuel Moore/Getty

Insects & Invertebrates

Honeybee guide: how they produce honey, why they sting, and a history of beekeeping

Painted lady butterfly stamp. © Royal Mail

New postal stamps to celebrate pollinators

Brown hairstreak butterfly at Alners Gorse, Dorset, UK. © Megan Shersby

Insects & Invertebrates

What’s the insect equivalent of blood?

Charlotte Rankin

Helping urban pollinators in Cornwall

Colletes floralis

Northern Ireland’s bees under threat of extinction

Peacock butterfly on aster.

New study on the best garden plants for pollinators

Add the tubes. © Sarah Cuttle

Help your local solitary bees and make a bee hotel

Red-shanked bumblebee Bombus ruderarius. © Steven Falk

Widespread losses of pollinators in Britain

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Insects & Invertebrates

How do cuckoo bumblebees trick other species?

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Why are honeybees like the human brain?

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Have you seen this bee?

HEIDENAU, SAXONY, GERMANY - 2015/10/01: A male Hoverfly (Eristalis tenax) is collecting nectar from a Dahlia (Asteraceae) blossom. (Photo by Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images)

What do hoverflies and honeybees have in common?