When you think ‘bees,’ you probably think of a neat stack of white hive boxes and the jars of honey on the store shelves. But there’s a lot more to bees than the agricultural staple, the European ...

Over 400 native bee species exist in New York, most of which are solitary ground-nesters. Native bees are vital pollinators, especially for certain fruits and vegetables, using a "buzz pollination" ...

Your backyard bee hotel might be doing more harm than good. While intended to help native bees, these structures can attract ...

Thank you for this question, Noel. Installing a nesting block is a great way to help attract native bees to pollinate your garden. This is something you can buy or make yourself. Rot-resistant cedar ...

Families visited the Soap Lake Library this week for an Earth Day program that turned tin cans, bamboo stems and paper tubes ...

“When California was wild, it was one sweet bee garden throughout its entire length, north and south and all the way across from the snowy Sierra to the ocean,” wrote John Muir in 1894’s “The ...

EAST LANSING, MI. – Every pollen-producing flowerpot helps support bees and butterflies, even those in cities surrounded by more concrete than natural landscapes. Researcher Kevin Matteson spent years ...

If you’ve ever looked out at your garden and wondered where all the bees went, you’re not imagining it. Native bee ...

When most people think of bees, they think of honeybees living in hives; but do you recognize native bees? Most native bees are solitary, living in a hole inside a tree, a hollow plant stem, or ...