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.

While the bumblebee is likely the most well-known pollinator, pollinators come in a variety of shapes, species, and sizes. “Many entomologists believe the tiny sweat bee nectaring on your flowering ...