One of the amusements a garden can provide is watching the birds, bees, butterflies and other critters drawn to it. Most of us have seen honeybees flying from flower to flower, sipping nectar or ...

Learn how to identify a carpenter bee. Find out where and how long the bees live and what to do if they become a nuisance.

As summer fades and the crisp autumn air settles in, our gardens begin to wind down. But while most of the flowers may be ...

Now that the calendar is turning from May to June, proponents of the “no-mow May” movement can begin to mow their lawns once again. If you are not familiar with this movement, it suggests that ...

Conservationists in Kent say there are signs that rare bumblebees are making a comeback, thanks to work improving their ...

California is celebrated for its diversity in flora and fauna, but to maintain and enhance that status, gardeners need to be mindful about creating gardens that are welcoming and supportive of ...

Andony Melathopoulos, a pollinator specialist at Oregon State University, holds a metallic sweat bee bumblebee from his collection. By Jane Arterberry and Jubilee Likayi ­ Bumblebees buzz around a ...

A bee is not just a bee when you start really looking at it. Most people know of the classic honey bee and the fuzzy, somewhat adorable bumble bee, but in Colorado alone there are more than 900 ...

DELAVAN – Hidden away in a neighborhood near Delavan Lake is a garden. A human would see it as only a garden, albeit a rather large one. To a bee, the riot of flowers is a pollinator’s paradise.

March in New England brings the earliest signs of spring. Plants that have been dormant all winter start to wake up and so do insects. As temperatures rise, native ground-nesting bees are among the ...