One summer day in 2018, Sam Droege lowered his net and scooped up a few small bees buzzing around the blossoms of a chinquapin, a shrubby member of the chestnut tree family. Droege, a wildlife ...

March in New England brings the earliest signs of spring. Plants that have been dormant all winter start to wake up and so do ...

In a study published in the journal Ecological Applications, Concordia researchers look at how certain floral characteristics ...

Flower shape and size impact urban bee survival. Discover how planting diverse blooms can support wild bee populations.

Here are five of the best flowers to plant no matter what ... It’s not just honey that we would lose if bees went extinct – the small, buzzing creatures pollinate 70 of around 100 crop species ...

The Conversation shares new research from University of Tennessee assistant professor Laura Russo showing that bees zero in on the flowers they like and ignore the surrounding landscape.

If you think the bee is struggling the best thing to do is gently put the bee onto a bee-friendly flower. If there are no bee-friendly flowers around, mix 50/50 white sugar and water to give the ...

thatmacroguy/ Shutterstock.com Bumblebees can vibrate their bodies to dislodge pollen from a flower. The bee then combs the pollen off its hairy body into little baskets on its legs, called corbiculae ...

Show kids the importance of bee habitats like flower patches. Help provide a safe place for the buzzers—which pollinate an estimated one-third of the food we eat—by building a bee hotel near ...