A charming hippo named Jessica.

Lots of interesting stuff coming to light these days about swarm theory, swarm intelligence, and potential applications to technology and ot...

"I think that having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own." —Andy Warhol

Lovely surprise to come upon this pretty girl while passing Union Square Park last Thursday.

Song of the Queen Bee by E.B White New Yorker Magazine 1945 “The breeding of the bee," says a United States Department of Agriculture b...

Angier weighs in...

In this amazing video, you'll witness what is known in beekeeper parlance as "hygienic behavior"—honeybees grooming themselves...

I'm glad someone—a beekeeper, no less—has raised questions about the inverted premise of Bee Movie: that it's the males in the colon...

No bees today, just bats—and seahorses, and other truly fabulous creatures—from that velvet-minded genius, Jean Painleve.

MY FRIEND JOHN WRITES I'm reading Don Quixote— “In the fissures of rocks and the hollows of trees diligent and clever bees established t...

The weather is finally turning cold (or cold-ish) and hard frost has come, weeks past its due date, zapping the remaining color from the fie...

The bees never miss a trick. You put something out on the hood of the car or carry a tool up to the field or lay a sweater on the lawn, and ...

I first came to love jewelweed as a kid at camp. Also known as "touch-me-not," the pods of this lovely, commonplace plant "ex...