Wild bee diversity improves when organic farms overlap with perennial meadows. These combinations offer nesting and varied ...

That’s enough to feed the offspring of 110,000 solitary ... we’ll still need honey bees. But we need wild bees, too. Farms rely on them, including those with commercial crops (native bees ...

In the face of colony collapse, some beekeepers are foregoing insecticides and opting instead to breed bees with ...

Scientists say the bees' temperament is to ward off predators. But unsuspecting humans will find them to be aggressive, spiteful and terrifying.

When beekeepers introduced honeybees to a protected island, wild bees nearly vanished. Could removing the hives reverse the damage?

Yet, wild bees are equally vital for pollination and, by some measures, outshine honey bees as pollinators ... of nearly $2.8 billion and produce calories and nutrients that could feed the equivalent ...

open image in gallery Bees pollinate a third of crops and 90 per cent of wild plants But despite this gloomy outlook, avid apiarists, entrepreneurs and honey producers are doing their bit.

But she also makes sure to grow plants that will feed bumblebees and other wild species. Server co-organizes the Niwot Honey Bee Harvest Festival, which celebrates not only honey bees but all ...