Carpenter bees bore round holes into wood siding and rails. Here's how to identify them and keep them from doing serious ...

What is a Bee Hotel? Not all bees live in hives. In fact, many of them are solitary animals, and they need places to shelter ...

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 ...

There are a handful of plants that add visual appeal to your landscape while keeping bees at bay. Some include peppermint, ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Honey bees are a vital part of our ecosystem, responsible for pollinating 80% of all flowering plants, including more than 130 fruits and vegetables. While foraging for nectar ...

Some 21,000 distinctly different species of bees live worldwide. Some are solitary females who dig their nest tunnels in the ground or dead wood without help. Others are social, living among tens ...

The species she came across belongs to the genus Diadasia, which are considered solitary bees. This means that, unlike honeybees for example, they do not build hives and live as a collective. Instead, ...

It walks around during the day in search of ground-nesting bees and wasps and lays an egg in the nest. A developing bee or wasp eats the egg and becomes parasitized internally. If you remember the ...

As temperatures rise, native ground-nesting bees are among the first to emerge. For most of my life, I confess that I was terrified of bees. Growing up in Florida, where stinging insects are ...