Since the winery's founding in 1983, Willamette Valley Vineyards' stewardship of the land has been a key principle in ...

In a sophomore project course, civil and environmental engineering students learned the engineering design process by designing, building and deploying bee hotels to protect local pollinator ...

The holes mean spring is here, and I’d forgotten it was coming at all, so inward was my mood ... the first solitary bees I saw as a child were red-tailed mason bees in a Victorian walled garden, where ...

Honey bee populations are again declining, threatening crops. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Dave Hunter, who raises the unsung hero of the orchard (and champion pollinator), the Mason bee.

Mason bees don't live in hives and they don't make honey. There is no queen bee and there are no worker bees. "All females are queens," says Hunter. Female mason bees lay their eggs in cavities or ...

Mason bees don't live in hives and they don't make honey. There is no queen bee and there are no worker bees. "All females are queens," says Hunter. Female mason bees lay their eggs in cavities or ...