Other gardeners go further, and they put out nesting tubes for bees – bee houses or bee nesting boxes or bee hotels, call them what you will – and they are an effective way to draw certain bee ...

Untreated wood is readily available at big-box stores and lumberyards ... holes in each block to encourage different-sized bees to nest. Bee diversity is good for plants. Alternate rows of ...

Imagine doing a home remodel and discovering a colony of honey bees that have been nesting there for over 30 years. That's ...

“Pink bee headed your way,” said Kirk Visscher ... Seeley and his colleagues would bring their own honeybees and nest boxes. “This is our laboratory,” Seeley said.

As concern grows over the decline in the honey bee population, alternative pollinators are gaining attention. Mason bees, which are native to North America, are one option. These gentle-natured ...

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For Roth, it's crucial to protect both honey bees—like the ones in his rooftop hives—and wild species. His organization has set up nesting boxes in the hopes of helping solitary bees ...

Life would be sad without berries. For years, I’ve had a Mason bee “hotel” in the garden, a simple box filled with hollow bamboo tubes to provide nesting space. The gentle, nonstinging Mason ...

It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise if you’ve seen a bee or two. But with that buzzing comes the seemingly routine deluge of Arizona headlines about stinging attacks, especially from the ...