More and more gardeners are realizing the importance of creating habitat for pollinators and adding a bee house or hive to their garden to give these buzzing pollinators a place to call home. There ...

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On a Saturday morning in mid-April, driving into Joshua Tree National Park's Ryan Campground, the scenery was striking: Giant, rounded boulders. Scurrying lizards. Spiky cholla cactus, shrubby ...

Trees are an often overlooked but critical source of pollen and nectar for bees. Planting a variety of trees that flower at different times supports bees throughout the season. Species like maple, ...

Discover how to protect bees while also keeping your home and garden safe with our tips for natural bee repellents. Meghan Holmes is a writer and documentarian specializing in scientific topics such ...

With plant sales booming and education about insects becoming more commonplace, awareness of both native plants and pollinators has grown significantly over the past decade. But amid all the success, ...

Social insects like bees demonstrate a remarkable range of behaviors, from working together to build structurally complex nests (complete with built-in climate control) to the pragmatic division of ...

The soft ground of the dead in upstate New York is buzzing with swarms of the living—the largest group of ground-nesting bees ever recorded worldwide. “It’s a massive aggregation of bee nests,” says ...