The orchards, gardens and natural areas of the Yakima Valley depend on pollinators to flourish. Managed hives of non-native honeybees pollinate the orchards. After blossom drop, these hives are moved ...

Discover the birth month bees. There's a specific bee for every month of the year. Here, we explain why they align with their ...

I keep mason bees. They sleep in cardboard tubes all winter long. I worry about my little bees until I see them chew out of their nesting tubes in the spring. I talked about how mason bees and all ...

As spring sets in across Michigan, bees will be buzzing as warm, sunny days bring the return of these pollinators. Here's a look at some common bee species in Michigan. Some nest in the ground, some ...

Recent calls to the Purdue Extension office have prompted me to re-visit a topic I have written about before: bees or wasps that form an elaborate nest and function as a colony. We call them “social” ...

As spring nears and the weather warms up , nature’s greatest pollinators – bees – tend to come out of hibernation. North Carolina is home to around 500 species of bees, according to Stan Schneider, a ...