Roughly 77% of the bees on earth are classified as solitary. This classification exists in contrast to social bees, which are those that organize themselves into hives, with each bee serving a role to ...

Last summer was an unusually bad year for bees and other pollinating insects, and the UK has seen a long-term decline in ...

James L. Cummins     We have heard a lot recently about the importance of bees and how detrimental it would be to our lives ...

Most bumble bees are solitary, though, meaning they don’t build hives, but they do more than their share of plant pollination. The threats the bumblebee face are three-pronged: loss of habitat ...