the scout stepped onto a treadmill when she went inside the nest box—have shown that a scout bee judges a potential nest cavity’s volume by sensing the amount of walking required to circumnavigate it.

Curtin University research has revealed that high densities of European honey bees could be harming Australian native bees' ...

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Introduced honey bees have the potential to reduce fitness of cavity-nesting native bees in terms of a male bias sex ratio, brood mortality and reduced reproduction ...

The first broods of bluebirds, Carolina wrens, and chickadees have fledged. So should we rid the nest boxes of old nest material and all its mess as soon as babies fledge? Research says, that depends.

And like many of their counterparts that nest above ground, these bees are facing rapid population declines. But while there has been research into providing habitat for above-ground cavity ...

A Pacific parrotlet looks up from its nest box in Ecuador. (Alison Ke, UC Davis) The paper also indicates that cavity-nesting birds were found more frequently using nest boxes in tropical pastures ...

Ceri studied horticulture at the University of Reading and RHS Wisley. She edits Which? Gardening magazine and our online gardening content. In this article Best boxes for nesting birds What to look ...

The Toledo Metroparks have had their cavity-nesting bird monitoring program since 1988, where volunteers check man-made nesting boxes to gauge the success of the program. “The eastern bluebird ...

And like many of their counterparts that nest above ground, these bees are facing rapid population declines . But while there has been research into providing habitat for above-ground cavity ...