Scientists are increasingly drawn to unmanaged colonies of this species, which use a variety of strategies to protect ...

When most people think of bees, they picture them buzzing from flower to flower or building hives in trees. But not all bees live that way. In fact, several species actually dig their nests ...

Fire affects bees differently; some thrive, others vanish, depending on nesting and environment. Ground-nesting bees often ...

You might associate bees with lush summer gardens and meadows. But this fall, one northern Illinois prairie is abuzz with the ...

Freya Marie Jackson received funding from the Australian Entomological Society (AES) through their "Small Grant Award", which supported some of this research on native bees. Additionally, she has ...

An image of a mining bee, also referred to as a ground bee. screenshot Courtesy of the Missouri Department of Conservation Spring is underway in South Carolina, filling yards again with life, ...

Several years ago, my friend Sharon Richardson introduced me to dahlias. She grows dozens of different varieties each year, knows them by name, and keeps them going season to season by overwintering ...

On a 22-degree day in mid-March, Anchorage backyard beekeeper Tim Huffman dusted 2 inches of fresh snow from his outdoor beehive boxes. He unfastened the ratchet straps securing a box to its wooden ...

Carpenter bees bore round holes into wood siding and rails. Here's how to identify them and keep them from doing serious damage. It’s easy to confuse carpenter bees with bumblebees, since both are ...

Even professional apiarists confuse carpenter bees and bumblebees. Nevertheless, there are clues that novice bee enthusiasts can rely on to help them properly distinguish these bees from each other.