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 ...

The global decline of wild bee populations is alarming. Landscapes characterized by intensive agriculture offer hardly any ...

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

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 ...

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

Events are taking place across the world in celebration of National Pollinator Week. The Wild Center in Tupper Lake has ...

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.

“Keeping wild animals is a great way to show that ... “In Slovenia, we need to feed honey bee colonies with sugar most of the year.” Image Mr. Trusnovec working at SKB Bank in Ljubljana.