Solitary bees are a diverse group of wild bees that nest alone rather than in hives or colonies like honeybees or bumblebees ...

Orchard bees and leaf cutter bees fall into this category, too. These native bees are called solitary bees because once the female mates, she is on her own.

Here are five interesting bees to watch for this spring: Leaf Cutter Bees and Mason Bees: These two types of bees prefer pre-made tubes to build their nurseries in. Tubes can be natural hollow ...

A rare San Francisco leaf-cutter bee has been spotted in Marin County, California — the first sighting of the insect since 1980, the Sacramento Bee reported. A conservation group called ...

A rare, elusive bee that is endemic to the Bay Area has turned up on Mount Tamalpais in its first documented sighting in nearly 45 years. The San Francisco leaf-cutter bee, also known as Trachusa ...

A rare, elusive bee that is endemic to the Bay Area has turned up on Mount Tamalpais in its first documented sighting in nearly 45 years. The San Francisco leaf-cutter bee, also known as Trachusa ...

POWELL — Midwinter testing for the health of leaf cutter bees is under way by the Wyoming Department of Agriculture at the seed lab north of Powell, and it is ...

Tamalpais Bee Lab, a branch of One Tam, created a search party to look for “the rare San Francisco leaf-cutter bee (Trachusa gummifera)” that was “lost for decades,” the Golden Gate ...

She recommends cutting down your standing dead stalks in spring, at lengths varying between 8-24 inches. By doing this, native bees like mason bees, leaf cutter bees, resin and yellow-faced bees ...

(KRON) — A rare bee species was seen in Marin County earlier this month for the first time in more than four decades. The San Francisco leaf-cutter bee (Trachusa gummifera) was spotted by a ...