When you think ‘bees,’ you probably think of a neat stack of white hive boxes and the jars of honey on the store shelves. But there’s a lot more to bees than the agricultural staple, the European ...

Over 400 native bee species exist in New York, most of which are solitary ground-nesters. Native bees are vital pollinators, especially for certain fruits and vegetables, using a "buzz pollination" ...

Well, we blinked, and now it’s August, usually the dog days of summer, a.k.a. SoCal’s hottest temps of the year, when your zucchini go into hyperdrive and your tomatoes stop producing because it’s ...

EAST LANSING, MI. – Every pollen-producing flowerpot helps support bees and butterflies, even those in cities surrounded by more concrete than natural landscapes. Researcher Kevin Matteson spent years ...

Many people conflate all bees together, but native solitary bees are actually very different from honeybees. Solitary bees are native, while honeybees are introduced species. Honeybees in Arizona are ...

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SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — The bees in the University of Rhode Island’s (URI) historic insect collection are old. “So this bee right here was collected in 1948 in South Kingstown,” said Casey ...

Tove Danovich is a writer in Portland, Ore., and the author of “Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them.” For most of the past century, honeybees were ...