Worldwide, there are over 20,000 bee species in seven Families. Some commonly encountered and recognizable genera in eastern North America are described below. Since 2006, when large die-offs of honey ...
Garden bees are tremendously important pollinators of plants, commercial crops, and native vegetation. There are over 4,000 native North American garden bee species, in addition to the European ...
Researchers have identified eight bee species never before recorded in Washington state. The discoveries were made in Chelan County during a University of Washington study on climate and wildfire ...
Researchers at the University of Washington have added eight never-before-recorded bee species to the state’s list of native ...
A rare bee species called the diadasia nitidifrons collected by a Washington Bee Atlas volunteer in Yakima County. This bee was last documented in Washington in 1919. Courtesy Washington Bee Atlas / ...
In 1965, renowned bee biologist Charles Michener described a new species of masked bee from “an entirely unexpected region,” the Tuamotu Archipelago of French Polynesia. Michener named the bee Hylaeus ...
(TMX) - A striking new bee species with tiny devil-like horns has been discovered in Western Australia’s Goldfields, offering fresh insight into how much remains unknown about the country’s native ...
The following six families of bees are found in the New York City area: the Colletidae (18 species), Halictidae (46 species), Andrenidae (63 species), Melittidae (3 species, although these have not ...