A common question is what do the bees do in this cold, icy weather? For the last several thousand years, bees have evolved to ...
Gardner said that collecting bees hasn’t been shown to have any impact on insect population sizes. Pesticide use, climate change, agricultural intensification and urbanization all have a far greater ...
For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter ...
Bees are fantastic pollinators. Without them, ecosystems would not thrive. Unfortunately, over the last 15 years, there has been a significant decline in both bee colonies and individual bees due to ...
Bumble bees aren’t random foragers – they’re master nutritionists. Over an eight-year field study in the Colorado Rockies, scientists uncovered that different bee species strategically balance their ...
Honey bees are able to carefully manage the temperature inside their hives, but new research shows that extreme summer heat ...
More flowers lead to more pathogen spread between bee species. In A Nutshell Scientists found that sites with more flower ...
Recently, I was out in my garden pulling up old pieces of bamboo used for fencing around some fragile native plants getting established. I was in the process of making a pile of them to burn, when ...