Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday signed a law designating the black and gold bumblebee as the Illinois State Bee.

My grandmother was a master gardener and flower farmer in the South. Some of my earliest and fondest memories are of ...

Tomatoes are, fortunately, one of those helpful garden plants that are capable of self-pollinating. While it's true that a single vine will usually produce fruit without another plant nearby, it will ...

BumbleBee’s Cafe in Blue Ridge, Georgia is exactly that kind of place, the sort of spot that makes you wonder why you ever ...

From the moment you plant your tomatoes, you begin looking forward to those tasty harvests, but there are a number of reasons ...

Kate Titford of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) finds out why we need to go wild for bees ...

People try all sorts of tricks to achieve a bigger tomato harvest. A dedicated tomato gardener will test different varieties, ...

A baby bumble bee can end up on one of two very different paths. It can grow into a small worker that never reproduces, or become a large future queen built to survive winter and start a colony of her ...

As the adage goes, “big things come in tiny packages.” Just ask the humble bumblebee. A team of researchers at the University of Oulu in Finland published a research paper on June 4, suggesting that ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: Wildlife. My frustration with urban wildlife reached its peak this week when I went out to look at my Eva’s Pride peach tree one morning to find the dozens ...