Garden bees are tremendously important pollinators of plants, commercial crops, and native vegetation. There are over 4,000 native North American garden bee species, in addition to the European ...

Across the country live about 4,000 native bee species — most of which are solitary and nest in the ground — coming in nearly every color of the rainbow and ranging widely in size. The country harbors ...

What you might not expect is that the grand majority of bee species do not produce honey or even live in hives. Roughly 77% of the bees on earth are classified as solitary. This classification exists ...

Iridescent sweat bees, hairy-faced mining bees, tiny Perdita minima the size of a gnat. Thanks to swarms of apiary ...

What is a Bee Hotel? Not all bees live in hives. In fact, many of them are solitary animals, and they need places to shelter ...

Solitary bees build their own nest, and while there may be aggregations ... “They are the most frequent wild bee visitors to apple flowers.” One species, the Carolina minor bee, almost exclusively ...

Some 21,000 distinctly different species of bees live worldwide. Some are solitary females who dig their nest tunnels in the ground or dead wood without help. Others are social, living among tens ...

March in New England brings the earliest signs of spring. Plants that have been dormant all winter start to wake up and so do insects.

including the honey bee that normally lives in hives that are managed by beekeepers. Others, like many species of bumblebees and solitary bees live in the wild. Bees in a modern, industrialised world ...