Garden bees are tremendously important pollinators of plants, commercial crops, and native vegetation. There are over 4,000 ...

Across the country live about 4,000 native bee species — most of which are solitary and nest in the ground — coming in nearly every color of the rainbow and ranging widely in size. The country harbors ...

What you might not expect is that the grand majority of bee species do not produce honey or even live in hives. Roughly 77% of the bees on earth are classified as solitary. This classification exists ...

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

The disappearance of the Mojave poppy bee is part of a troubling decline in many of the 4,000-plus species of native, wild, mostly solitary bees in the United States that are needed to pollinate the ...

Solitary bees build their own nest, and while there may be aggregations ... “They are the most frequent wild bee visitors to apple flowers.” One species, the Carolina minor bee, almost exclusively ...

including the honey bee that normally lives in hives that are managed by beekeepers. Others, like many species of bumblebees and solitary bees live in the wild. Bees in a modern, industrialised world ...

There are more than 4,000 species of ground and twig nesting ... mason bees and polyester bees — lead a solitary life. What do these bees need and how can we support them? In our home gardens ...