The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

Cornell University bee experts are analyzing samples of bees and related material to help identify the cause of unprecedented ...

An army of experts and citizen scientists devoted to documenting and protecting the country’s native bees is telling us a lot ...

Regular readers of this column will know that, in general, I struggle to muster much affection for non-native species, ...

If growers are willing to put in the time, expense and labor required to manage honey bees, which are considered ...

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Native bees and honeybees are struggling in many places. Learn how to help the bees, butterflies and more beneficial bugs ...

Iridescent sweat bees, hairy-faced mining bees, tiny Perdita minima the size of a gnat. Thanks to swarms of apiary ...

March in New England brings the earliest signs of spring. Plants that have been dormant all winter start to wake up and so do ...

By Brent Cunningham All six episodes of Buzzkill are out, and we hope you’re enjoying them. But at FERN we’re givers, so check out this bonus episode, recorded earlier this month in New York City at ...

The giant honeybees compose an ancient subgenus (Megapis) with several forms in Asia. The lowland form, Apis dorsataFabricius, 1793, is widespread from Pakistan to eastern Indonesia, with geographic ...

Wayne Soil and Water Conservation District education specialist Kelly Riley explains the benefits of putting off spring ...