Leafcutter bees have sharp jaws resembling serrated knives, yet they are surprisingly docile. These hard-working bees are known for slicing through plant leaves, leaving signature holes in their wake.

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

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

Wood-nesting bees, such as mason bees, carpenter bees, orchard bees and leafcutter bees, ideally use dead tree trunks or “snags” for nesting sites. Leaving dead tree trunks in your landscape ...

These multi-tube “hotels” are appropriate for mason bees and leafcutter bees, another native pollinator. Find the above-referenced publication, “Identifying Wild Bees as Pollinators of Indiana’s ...

Insects that eat leaves create different kinds of damage. While you will not always see the bug that's doing the eating, you will almost certainly notice the destruction. Here's how to identify ...

Humans are pushing many of North America’s pollinators dangerously close to extinction, according to a newly released study.

Here in the Tahoe area, chimney bees, leafcutter bees, and some bees in the genus Anthophora face the snow as newly hatched young. These young are kept in brood cells, which are formed in small ...

Imperiled pollinators that will likely be harmed by today’s approval include the American bumblebee, the southern plains bumblebee and the leafcutter bee. The EPA has routinely circumvented the normal ...