Bee hotels are used in gardens to provide nesting chambers for mason bees and increase pollination, but many people don't ...

You know honeybees make honey, but did you know they make bread too? And four other types of bees are also dedicated chefs!

“They’re some of the earliest spring fliers,” says Skvarla. Many types of mason bees hatch out in early to mid-spring, but other species hatch in mid to late summer. Many types of mason bees ...

things that these native pollinators are already working on," Moss said during the spring briefing ... The duo initially planned to build a house just for native mason bees. The project morphed into a ...

The Art of Bonsai: 1-3 p.m. third Thursday and third Saturday of the month. Instructor Mark Vossbrink will guide you through ...

Mason bees use mud in nest construction and are active mostly in Spring. Leafcutter bees use leaves to line nests and are active in Summer. A few species in this diverse group are managed for crop ...

Each spring, mated queens emerge from hibernation ... a narrow range of plants (Bosch & Kemp 2004). For example, the mason bees (~ 130 species in North America) pollinate blueberries, blackberries ...

The arrival of fall brings shorter days, cooler nights and a gradual winding down of garden activity. Flowers start to fade, ...

On the first day of summer 2013, agriculture officials confirmed that 50,000 bees—likely representing more than 300 colonies—discovered dead in a shopping mall parking lot in Wilsonville, Oregon, were ...

Collecting minute amounts of nectar and pollen from flowering plants spread across the landscape and bringing them to a central hive location, honey bees produced a glorious, sticky manna. When ...

Two-coloured mason bees use snail shells for egg laying. They pack the shell with pollen and nectar for their larvae, then seal it with grass and sticky saliva. Humans sometimes consider snails to be ...