Orchard growers looking for alternatives to honey bees for managed pollination services have new reason to be optimistic about the potential of one honey bee cousin, the blue orchard bee. A recent ...

Q: There are bumble bees living in a box on my potting bench. One of them stung me. I don’t want to kill them, but I’d like to use the potting bench. Is there a safe way (for them and for me!) to move ...

A colony of bees has created an intricate nest inside an irrigation box, surrounded by lush greenery and citrus trees. Bees nesting inside a compost bin compartment with honeycomb structures visible, ...

Britain's gardens are vital habitats for nesting bumblebees, new research has found. The findings will help conservationists understand -- and hopefully address -- the factors responsible for ...

Britain's gardens are vital habitats for nesting bumblebees, new research has found. The results come from the National Bumblebee Nest Survey, which are published online in the British Ecological ...