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 ...

The adage “The more you look, the more you see” is the basis for the “Pollinators in Paradise” project, a new approach to researching Hawaii’s most important native pollinators: the yellow-faced bees.

The endangered Hawaiian yellow-faced bee is being threatened by invasive ants, researchers with the state Division of Forestry and Wildlife and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Pacific Islands ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service added 49 species of plants and animals to the endangered species list on Friday, all native to Hawaii. Unlike the dozens of similar releases the FWS publishes each ...

While the most common varieties such as honey and bumble bees share a similar, distinctive colour pattern, hundreds of lesser known types have a completely different appearance. Some are as small as a ...

Naturally, the yellow car swarmed by bees led to quite a bit of speculating about how to take care of a situation like this. But that was before the pros were called in. Noah Wilson-Rich, a behavioral ...