Jessi and Squeaks are busy working in their garden, and they'd like to share one trick that keeps their plants happy!

Can you feel them in your fingers? How about in your lungs? Vibrations are all around us, so let’s explore some everyday vibrations!

Jessi and Squeaks are back from their research trip and ready to keep learning with all of you! And on their trip back to The Fort, Jessi thought up a really interesting questions: how do animals find their way home?

Bees and flowers have an amazingly close relationship. Flowers need bees in order to reproduce, and bees need flowers to feed their colonies. Take away one, and the other would disappear too. It begs the question: When it comes to...

Have you ever pretended to be something else? Some animals do too! Learn how animals use mimicry to keep safe, or to sneak a snack!

An experiment gone wrong, a lab accident, and a government conspiracy… The origin of the killer bee sounds like a zombie movie come to life.

About 10 years ago, the news was packed with reports about something called colony collapse disorder — a mysterious phenomenon that involved the disappearance of enormous numbers of bees. Then, the news stopped talking about it. So what...

Bees are quite beneficial little critters: pollinating flowers, making honey, and also...helping corpses decompose.

Scientists have learned more about why royal jelly makes queen bees, and we peek at the tiny and terrifying mandibles of trap-jaw ants.

We've heard that bees are disappearing. But what is making bee colonies so vulnerable? Photographer Anand Varma raised bees in his backyard — in front of a camera — to get an up close view. This project, for National Geographic, gives a...

You've probably heard about the sudden and mysterious drop in honey bee populations throughout the U.S.A. and Europe. Beekeepers used to report average losses in their worker bees of about 5-10% a year, but starting around 2006, that...

Groups of animals have some really interesting names! Learn about them with Jessi and Squeaks!

Why is there a hexagonal structure in honeycombs? Why not squares? Or asymmetrical blobby shapes? In 36 B.C., the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro wrote about two of the leading theories of the day. First: bees have six legs, so they...

You see them when it's warm outside, hanging out in flowers and working away. Bees! Check out what these buzzing insects are up to, and how you can tell the difference between a bumblebee and a honey bee.

Bees, wild and domesticated, are in big trouble. Bee colonies are dying off at alarming rates, and the cause isn't clear. Pesticides, habitat loss, disease, there's a laundry list of likely culprits. We rely on these tiny pollinators for...

You might enjoy a delicious peach or slice of watermelon this summer, and it's largely in thanks to our pollinating friends: the BEES!

When you think of bees, you probably don’t think of single-celled eukaryotes. What could an insect have in common with, say, a ciliate?

There are a lot of different social structures in the animal world, but how did animals go from solitary to social, let alone from basic interactions to elaborate societies? The small carpenter bee may be just the beast to tackle this...

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In this video, we delve into the extraordinary superpowers of bees, showcasing their abilities to navigate using Earth's magnetic field, communicate through intricate dances, and...

Howcast - It’s nice to have pollinated flowers and honey, but we could do with out the sting. Thankfully, there are ways to lessen your chances of being barbed.

Got bees? Follow these steps to harvest the sweet nectar from your hives.

See what goes on during the fledging stage with the beautiful white fronted bee eaters at the San Diego Zoo.

These birds have one of the most complex social structures in the world.

Also, see what goes on during the fledging stage with the beautiful white fronted bee eaters at the San Diego Zoo.