Carpenter bees bore round holes into wood siding and rails. Here's how to identify them and keep them from doing serious damage. It’s easy to confuse carpenter bees with bumblebees, since both ...

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How to Identify Wasps vs. Hornets vs. Bees There are many kinds of wasps, hornets and bees out there, and they vary widely in appearance, but you can generally tell a wasp or hornet from a bee by ...

Yet bees remain as mysterious as they are important. Scientists are still figuring out how many species of them exist. Estimates vary, but they commonly range around 20,000 worldwide and 4,000 in ...

A group of Dutch scientists is enlisting the help of an unusual group of participants for a new kind of rapid COVID-19 test: bees that have been specially trained to detect the virus. Res… ...

There are between 300 and 400 types of bees living in Iowa, but she says this survey will only focus on the state’s 14 species of bumble bees. “They’re fairly easy to distinguish from other ...

There are about 400 species of bees in New Jersey, some familiar like the common eastern bumble bee, but others rarely seen. “There are many more bees than you realize,” Simpson said.

Just a few decades ago, bee enthusiasts across much of North America could count on spotting one of the continent’s most common bumblebee species buzzing from flower to flower. Today the ...