When beekeepers introduced honeybees to a protected island, wild bees nearly vanished. Could removing the hives reverse the ...

Carpenter bees can carve tunnels in wood with their jaws. Discover how they live, build, and help our ecosystems.

The second half of May is peak season for one of the Vineyard’s most interesting bees, Colletes thoracicus, sometimes called ...

Q. My neighbor, who owned two hives of bees, moved during the winter and took his hives with him. I am concerned about the ...

Gardeners love mason bees, the nonaggressive, super-pollinator cousins of the honey bee. It’s easy to find adorable mason bee “hotels” with stacked, bee-sized nesting tubes hanging in yards around Cla ...

Many species of solitary bees require access to bare ground and cover for nesting, so a wall-to-wall green carpet prevents that. Wild mason bees love to nest in hollow tubes, and are encouraged by ...

Temperature and humidity monitors inside ... of the tube so they emerge first.) A general rule of thumb is that around 250 female mason bees can pollinate an acre of crops. Among mason bee ...

Without pollinators, we wouldn’t have one out of every three bites of food we eat. That’s because about 35 percent of the world’s food crops depend on animal pollinators to produce the ...

Because they build chambers inside the tubes, they were given the name ... It's a pretty hands-off sort of deal." Mason bees are a shy bee and rarely sting. That means the garden isn't dangerous ...

Because they build chambers inside the tubes, they were given the ... stands in front of her bee hotel, which homes the mason bees that pollinate her fruit trees. Beth Cummings, a retired college ...