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When it comes to bees, most people think of the honeybee or maybe a bumblebee, but bees are an incredibly diverse group of ...
Some queens don't rule nonstop. A new study from the University of California, Riverside shows that even bumble bee queens, ...
When beekeepers introduced honeybees to a protected island, wild bees nearly vanished. Could removing the hives reverse the ...
Ah, the beloved honeybee. They’re fuzzy and social. They make honey and beeswax. Children draw them and backyard beekeepers ...
I wrote recently about pollinator-friendly plants and, in response, an email from Susan Savolainen, who gardens in Banning, ...
The second half of May is peak season for one of the Vineyard’s most interesting bees, Colletes thoracicus, sometimes called ...
Washington's pollinators are critical to our state’s agriculture and can sometimes be used to help degraded ecosystems.
A 14.6-million-year-old fossilized Leioproctus bee has been discovered, calling into question current theories about ...
Researchers have produced what is probably the most comprehensive list of bee species in Connecticut, noting 388 of them so ...
Volunteers are needed to help compile what’s known as Iowa’s Bumble Bee Atlas, an effort to gauge the state’s populations of ...
Researchers creating a first-of-its-kind atlas for bee species in B.C. say Kamloops is abuzz with diverse bee species, and at ...
Researchers at Nagaland University have identified stingless bee species that can be used to increase quality and quantity of agricultural yield through pollination, according to officials. The ...