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

A new method of examining gene expression patterns called landscape transcriptomics may help pinpoint what causes bumble bees ...

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

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

I plant something different in my containers in the front of my house, trying to find that perfect plant. Maybe it’s because ...

Plants that have been dormant all winter start ... Only ten percent of bees in North America form colonies such as bumble bees, sweat bees, and the non-native honeybee. In New England, the other ...

Most bumble bees are solitary, though, meaning they don’t build hives, but they do more than their share of plant pollination. The threats the bumblebee face are three-pronged: loss of habitat ...

A bumble bee queen must go through diapause—a dormant ... Many pesticides can dissolve in water, where plants can absorb and transport them into their pollen and nectar. When this happens ...

Most bumble bees are solitary, though, meaning they don’t build hives, but they do more than their share of plant pollination. The threats the bumblebee face are three-pronged: loss of habitat ...

Fat, hairy, and docile, the bumblebee is the teddy bear of the insect world. But don’t underestimate this agile aviator. As with other wild bees, it plays a vital role as a pollinator.