If you want to encourage these little pollinators to nest in your yard, set aside an area of sparsely covered, sandy soil in ...

Commercial beekeepers have reported losing around 62% of their colonies over the winter, far higher than the usual honey bee ...

Charles Darwin proposed a simple explanation. He believed bees chose the same flowers again and again because switching would ...

Honeybee populations are again declining, threatening crops. But the honeybee is not the only bee that can work in the fields.

Honey bee populations are again declining, threatening crops. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Dave Hunter, who raises the unsung hero of the orchard (and champion pollinator), the Mason bee.

Pinned up on one of the walls in Paddy Gorman’s farm workshop near Kilmessan is his favourite saying. It’s a message, written ...

The bee population in the UK is declining quickly, and some species of the insect are even on the endangered list. We turn to ...

Vibrancy and exuberance of bygone days has vanished into the thin air. Ah ! The Eid of my childhood days is gone ...

What is a Bee Hotel? Not all bees live in hives. In fact, many of them are solitary animals, and they need places to shelter ...

Mason bees have much more threshold of temperature to become active and start flying around, seeking out your plants and because they are solitary creatures (not living in a hive) they are not ...

Get the buzz with amazing honey bee facts. Get answers to frequently asked questions about these honey producing pollinators.

Look a little closer and you will likely see mining bees. Mining bees are solitary insects that sometimes nest in large aggregations." To get started on planting your bee-friendly garden ...