At WorkThese photos, which show a natural honeybee nest, add clarity to the way honeybees live in the wild. Here, worker bees construct new comb out of beeswax as others zoom into the woodpecker ...

During the winter months, honeybee colonies face their most challenging period of survival. The combination of cold ...

Did you know that there are about 270 species of wild bee in the ... benefit from visits by bees – for example, broccoli, cabbages and apples. Bees love to live in natural green spaces, like ...

Almost 90% of wild plants and 75% of leading global crops depend on animal pollination. One out of every three mouthfuls of our food depends on pollinators such as bees. Crops that depend on ...

"Because honeybees are social insects that live together in a colony ... "For questions about hive insulation, giving bees sugar, and other ways you can help wild honeybees, contact a local ...

Others, like many species of bumblebees and solitary bees live in the wild. Bees in a modern, industrialised world are facing a range of complex and interacting threats, and the cumulative effect of ...

A third of British wild bees and hoverflies are in decline ... The "losers" include solitary bees, which live in burrows in the ground, and upland bees, living on mountains and moorlands.

"Quarries provide valuable habitats for wild bees and other animals and plants that occur on the now rare calcareous grasslands," explains lead author Dr Felix Kirsch from the Institute of ...

Most wild bees don’t live in hives. Squash bees, for example, spend the night in squash blossoms and leave before the ...