Plant aromatic herbs and flowers with bright colors to attract bees and butterflies to your garden. Include wooly plants to provide nesting materials for solitary bees and enhance biodiversity.

Spring is finally here, the birds are back and it’s time for the bees to come out of hibernation, and some of them are just looking for a little peace and quiet. Contrary to popular knowledge, ...

With World Honey Bee Day on the third Saturday in August, it's still timely to learn about honey bees and highlight the crucial role they play in our ecosystem. These tiny pollinators are essential ...

The eight white boxes in a weedy, fenced-off field behind the big red barn at Eastern Washington University are absolutely crawling with life. Assistant professor Jeni Walke, flanked by undergraduates ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - Many people in Ann Arbor practiced No Mow May last month in an effort to create a bee-friendly environment for pollination. But bee-friendliness is a year-round affair at Washtenaw ...

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For an insect with so many species, such a vast range and a seriously important job, there is, oddly, a paucity of data on Anthophila. Better known as bees, they are pollinators extraordinaire, makers ...

UC Santa Barbara leading new NSF grant to digitize, make available more than 1.5 million images of global bee specimens For an insect with so many species, such a vast range and a seriously important ...