Iridescent sweat bees, hairy-faced mining bees, tiny Perdita minima the size of a gnat. Thanks to swarms of apiary ...
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 ...
SAN DIEGO, CA — After a few years of no sightings, a rare bee was recently spotted in San Diego. A San Clemente Digger Bee ...
The generalist pollinator is among a rare group of parasitic cuckoo bumblebees that play ... then kill or subdue the host queen. The cuckoo bee then lays her own eggs and controls the workers to ...
The bee’s pollinating skills are tightly linked to the survival of two rare desert poppy flowers. The bee has disappeared as those plants have declined. “This is a first step toward preventing the ...