Ann Turkenburg Scott has a colony of bumblebees nesting under a shelf in her Kamloops shed for the summer in what appears to ...

Planting native wildflowers, such as vetches – or even growing vegetables and herbs can provide food for bees. Setting up a ...

A recent study reveals that bumblebee queens may hold the key to the survival of the species, while teaching humans a lesson ...

With about 600 different species of bees in Washington, you would think it would be easy to spot one. But that black and yellow insect you see quickly darting from flower to flower could just as easil ...

While most people picture the beloved honeybee when they think about bees, North America actually has 4,000 species of native ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our community in a variety of ways, including 4-H, farm advisers, and ...

I saw this red poppy with a bumblebee inside. I always thought that bees couldn’t see red and so never visited red flowers.

While the carpenter and bumble bees were the most obvious visitors to the lupines, a closer look revealed a host of activity ...

Research shows that what matters to bumble and honey bees is the shape of the flower, the quantity and quality of the nectar and, to some extent ...

Heather Thompson knows quite a bit about bees. When she studied conservation biology at St. Lawrence University, her research explored the diversity of native bee populations. The New York State Parks ...

For one, carpenter bees belong to the subfamily Xylocopinae, which is reserved for bees that nest in dead wood, stems, or pith and are solitary. Beyond subfamily, the bees of this classification ...