Wild bee diversity improves when organic farms overlap with perennial meadows. These combinations offer nesting and varied ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

HAVE you heard the news? Henley was recognised as a bee-friendly town on National Bee Day in May. We achieved this thanks to the efforts of various organisations, residential areas and businesses to ...

While recycling old soup and coffee cans is one option, consider saving a few and upcycling them into these garden features that will attract and support bees.

New research shows bumble bee queens pause egg-laying early in colony formation to manage energy and time reproduction.

Native bees come in a variety of sizes - some are big, some are small, and some are… even smaller! Enjoy these two vignettes ...

Sensitive approaches, such as light grazing or a late harvest of hay, means that these wildflowers and their dependant ...

This bee species was first recorded as far back as 1987, and the authors of the study had been independently collecting and observing the species for years in Texas and Oklahoma. But it wasn’t ...

The structures are meant to provide solitary bees with a place to nest. “For healthy food, we need pollinators, and some of these are specialty pollinators that are actually better than ...

Bumble bees’ nest in the ground while carpenter bees ... As for the mining or digger bees, they are solitary and do not form colonies. Each mining bee female usually digs her own individual ...

According to Gardening Express, some bugs such as ladybugs are capable of consuming dozens of aphids a day, making them a ...