With all of Tucson’s lovely desert blooms, you no doubt have noticed plenty of bees. If you want to have a garden with beautiful flowers (and who doesn’t?), you will also have bees and other ...

In the Peruvian Amazon, a tiny pollinator gains legal standing—and reshapes conservation.

Cornell researchers recently observed a novel ‘outhouse’ structure in Arctic bumble bee nests that could mitigate the spread of fecal-borne disease within bee colonies. The outhouse is a small and ...

When ecologist Rachael Winfree first began studying bees 25 years ago, she happened upon a surprise: a species of plasterer bee in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, not seen in 50 years and suspected to ...

A research team has investigated the importance of limestone quarries for wild bee conservation. Diverse landscapes with good connectivity between quarries and calcareous grasslands proved to be ...

Above: Bumble bees buzz pollinate crops like tomatoes when they collect pollen, which they store in a ball on their hind legs. It’s hard to deny the absolute benefits of the honey bee, but did you ...

A new study reveals the economic importance of wild honeyguide birds to villages in northern Mozambique. Three-quarters of the honey collected by honey-hunters in Niassa Special Reserve is found with ...

A research team at the University of Göttingen, Germany’s Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) in Rhede, and the Thünen Institute in Braunschweig has investigated the importance of ...