Are bees just as intrigued by the solar eclipse as we are? Recently released data from the 2017 eclipse shows that honey bees across North America completely stopped flying as the moon passed over the sun. Honey bees are an integral part of our ecosystem and understanding their behaviour is key in keeping crops pollinated and honey flowing. With this in mind, researchers from the University of Missouri, Lincoln University, and Willamette University teamed up to find out why t

Look at this beautiful, harmless fly. So sparkly, so nice. Wait, is that a second pair of wings? Why, this isn't a fly at all - it's the deceptive cuckoo wasp! Cuckoo wasps are parasitic wasps of the family Chrysididae: very beautiful and very dangerous, at least to other insects. There are thousands of species split up among 4 subfamilies: Chrysidinae, Cleptinae, Amiseginae, and Lobosceliniidae. Chrysidinae is the largest subfamily, so we'll focus on them, but we can touch o