Over 400 native bee species exist in New York, most of which are solitary ground-nesters. Native bees are vital pollinators, especially for certain fruits and vegetables, using a "buzz pollination" ...

When you think ‘bees,’ you probably think of a neat stack of white hive boxes and the jars of honey on the store shelves. But there’s a lot more to bees than the agricultural staple, the European ...

When most people think of bees, they think of honeybees living in hives; but do you recognize native bees? Most native bees are solitary, living in a hole inside a tree, a hollow plant stem, or ...

DEAR JOAN: I’ve done a lot with my backyard to make it much more pollinator- and hummingbird-friendly. I’m planning to make it an even better habitat for native bees by including more native plants ...

“When California was wild, it was one sweet bee garden throughout its entire length, north and south and all the way across from the snowy Sierra to the ocean,” wrote John Muir in 1894’s “The ...

Marcio Verá Mirim grew up listening to a family story. His grandfather, a leader of the semi-nomadic Guarani Mbyá Indigenous ...

Love your mixed-berry smoothies and avocado toast? Then it’s time to share some love for native bees that pollinate many of our favorite foods. Say bee, and most picture a European honeybee—a ...

You can see them out gathering pollen sometimes, on a warm sunny winter day. It helps if you have some nectar and pollen plants. Recently I was at a local nursery and saw a table full of Gaillardia.

A Jarrell garden restores habitat from former pastureland; discover solitary native bees. What exactly are pollinators? Dr. Sean Griffin from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center explores the ...

Feral honey bees, once celebrated for their agricultural value, are now threatening native ecosystems in Southern California by monopolizing pollen sources and overwhelming native pollinators. A new ...