All around you, animals are building, burrowing or stealing dwellings for themselves and their families. For others, home is a state of mind.

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Learn about the bees of Otago – from native pollinators to introduced species. Discover their roles in biodiversity, food production, and ecosystem health.

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Bumble bees are the only insects that can pollinate tomatoes. Professor Jenny Jandt from Otago Uni's zoology department has just completed a study looking at how we can help the bumble bees thrive and...

Of all the bugs New Zealanders could have selected to win an international competition, they chose neither the prettiest, nor the most useful.

It is estimated to have been around in Aotearoa for 500 million years.

Velvet worms have rows of pudgy legs, skin speckled like a galaxy and dissolve their prey with sticky goo

The environment in which pollinators are reared may influence both their health and pollination performance. We compared the performance of 12 colonies of bumblebees (Bombus terrestris), each in their...

The preference-performance hypothesis suggests that female insects prefer to oviposit on the host plant that provides the highest fitness for offspring. However, introduced plants can cause ecological...

Our BEE Creative Team worked with school groups and workshop participants of all ages to create 16 beautiful collages that capture the importance of planting a diverse assortment of flowers to feed…

Those big bumble bees and wasps you might have seen in your garden are likely the queens preparing their nests and colonies for summer.

Integrating iNaturalist and other sightings from a bug-curious public into biosecurity surveillance is a valuable approach for invasive species management.

Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...

By guest contributors Karima Chaabna and Sohaila Cheema Global North institutions and experts have long dominated the global research agenda, leading major…

Some thoughts about doing the right thing as an academic in an autocracy

Rapid adaptation is thought to be critical for the survival of species under global change, but our understanding of human-induced evolution in the wild remains limited. We show that widespread defore...

A new study shows that rapid loss of forests has prompted a colour change in stoneflies, caused by a genetic mutation. This means human change to the environment can drive evolution.