Somewhere between 400,000 and 700,000 thousand years ago — about the time Haleakala was forming — a tiny bee arrived in the Hawaiian Islands. This bee was about the size of a grain of rice and ...

I began seeing carpenter bees hovering around the eaves of my house during mid-February this year. Carpenter bees are large, black-and-yellow bees often seen flying near homes, wooden fences or decks ...

Some years ago, scientists examining wild plants in a western corner of the United States encountered a curiously colourful example of biodiversity. Two species of red Mimulus (monkeyflowers) normally ...