Mining bees are a type of solitary bee that 'mines' into the ground to make their nest chambers. Examples include ashy mining ...

Bee-friendly gardens make people happy! Whether your preference is a tranquil sanctuary from a chaotic world, an eye-catching ...

We all know cacti store water—but to survive, they migrate their flowers, and so much more. Scientists want to copy the ...

I don’t think there is another animal on the planet considered to be as beneficial to humanity as the honey bee (Apis mellifera). For our earliest hominid ancestors, to have come across a wild bee ...

"Carpenter bees are often regarded as the gentle giants of the native pollinator community," says Crumbley. "They do not make honey. In fact, their nests are completely different ... If you do resort ...

As the world's native bee populations are declining, crop production requiring pollinators increasingly relies on commercial pollination services. In the U.S., the beekeeping industry is in great ...

As a hobby, beekeeping in the city seems to be growing despite some challenges and even questions about whether honeybees may ...

"There's about 1.3 million acres of almond trees in California, and each acre requires two honey bee hives for pollination, so that's about 2.6 million honey bee hives every year. They are coming ...

It has been more than three weeks without any measurable rain in the Philadelphia region, and farms are feeling the impacts ...

There are nearly 4,000 native bee species in the United States, contributing to pollination in agricultural, urban and natural landscapes. Honey bees, however, are not native to the U.S., which has ...

Honey from stingless bees contains large amounts of a unique ... trehalulose was less likely to cause tooth decay because it doesn’t feed the sugar-driven oral bacteria responsible for cavities.

Researchers found that the women who took 1 tablespoon (tbsp) of a mixture of bee pollen and honey for 14 days experienced decreased hormonal symptoms like hot flashes compared to baseline.