Iridescent sweat bees, hairy-faced mining bees, tiny Perdita minima the size of a gnat. Thanks to swarms of apiary ...

Flower shape and size impact urban bee survival. Discover how planting diverse blooms can support wild bee populations.

Spring is approaching in the northern hemisphere, and with it come the perennial considerations about which kinds of flowers ...

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 ...

Vermont native bees are a very different creature than the honey bee (Apis mellifera) and, some biologists point out, ...

Pesticides, widely used to protect crops from pests, often unintentionally harm pollinators like bumble bees. A new study, ...

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 ...

and with it come the perennial considerations about which kinds of flowers ... with urban bee populations. They found that a diversity of size and shape of the corolla — the tube-like structure ...