Incorporating the best plants for bees into your garden can transform it into a haven for pollinators. The best bee garden ...

Busy as a bee is an accurate statement. According to the Xerces Society, a nonprofit organization working to protect bees, 75% of the world’s food crop depends on at least one pollinator, such ...

Drummond and his UMaine colleagues Lois Berg Stack and Alison Dibble are doing a five-year study financed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on bees and what pollen- and nectar-bearing plants ...

Robotic bees seem like a fairly simple proposition; fly the robot around to flowers, collect pollen, transfer pollen, done. Just one problem: Some plants don't give it up that easily. Pollen is ...

B.C. bee organizations are encouraging residents to give a thought to these fierce little pollinators, and plant gardens that will help in their survival. And, according to Brian Campbell ...

Bee balm is at its best in August and September. According to Rufino Osorio in his book A Gardener's Guide to Florida's Native Plants, "the chief horticultural interest of spotted bee balm lies in ...

Carpenter bees don’t get as much attention as honeybees, but they’re essential to cross-pollinate plants in Missouri and Kansas. Pat Sullivan AP file photo While honeybees experience a ...

the honey bee. And while native garden plants such as wild bergamot and common milkweed are vital resources for pollinators, one needs only to look up to find that trees are just as important ...