Researchers from the University of Florence and University of Pisa conducted an experiment demonstrating that managed ...

Iridescent sweat bees, hairy-faced mining bees, tiny Perdita minima the size of a gnat. Thanks to swarms of apiary ...

There are a handful of plants that add visual appeal to your landscape while keeping bees at bay. Some include peppermint, ...

Our free Trees for Bees trail runs at Wakehurst from March to September, and you can take part all day, every day! It's a great activity for children, to get budding ecologists engaged with and ...

Regular readers of this column will know that, in general, I struggle to muster much affection for non-native species, ...

An army of experts and citizen scientists devoted to documenting and protecting the country’s native bees is telling us a lot ...

These questions go far beyond mere aesthetics: flowers are an essential source of food for birds and insects, including the dozens upon dozens of species of wild bees found in most cities. For them, ...

A new method of examining gene expression patterns called landscape transcriptomics may help pinpoint what causes bumble bees stress and could eventually give insight into why bee populations are ...

There’s more to ‘keeping’ bees than hives and honey, as Rachel de Thample’s new River Cottage Handbook explains ...

Vermont native bees are a very different creature than the honey bee (Apis mellifera) and, some biologists point out, ...