An army of experts and citizen scientists devoted to documenting and protecting the country’s native bees is telling us a lot ...

Q: In March and April there are little mounds of red dirt all over my lawn. I have seen little yellowish bees going down in the mounds. What do you suggest I use to eliminate the bees? — Gracie ...

One summer day in 2018, Sam Droege lowered his net and scooped up a few small bees buzzing around the blossoms of a chinquapin, a shrubby member of the chestnut tree family. Droege, a wildlife ...

A new method of examining gene expression patterns called landscape transcriptomics may help pinpoint what causes bumble bees stress and could eventually give insight into why bee populations are ...

March in New England brings the earliest signs of spring. Plants that have been dormant all winter start to wake up and so do ...

Q: I have lots of this weird weed popping up in my rock beds out front and wonder what they’ll grow up to be. The leaves are ...

Beekeepers from across the country are gathering in the midlands this weekend to highlight their concerns around the native Irish honey bee which they say is at grave risk of extinction.

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, or CalPERS, headquarters buildings are photographed Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, in downtown Sacramento. Xavier Mascareñas xmascarenas@sacbee ...

The team saw a wide range of insects such as bees, wasps, beetles, flies, butterflies, moths, and even some arachnids. The findings are detailed in a study published March 4 in the journal Science ...

Some bumble bee species may reach as long as one inch. Their bodies have three segments, the head, thorax, and abdomen. Most of their bodies are covered in thick, fuzzy black and yellow hair in ...

The sight and sound of a bumblebee or a honey bee buzzing from ... There, they hope to mate with a female of their species. Carpenter bees in Arizona seek out prominent hilltops.

Bumblebee numbers declined by nearly a quarter ... with greater conservation efforts needed to safeguard the future of the bee. Their decline is likely down to cold and wet conditions in spring ...