Gardeners can prepare for spring 2025 by building a bee-friendly garden. The vital pollinators are in need of conservation as their populations decline. If you have a green thumb, it may be the ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — The bees in the University of Rhode Island’s (URI) historic insect collection are old. “So this bee right here was collected in 1948 in South Kingstown,” said Casey ...

Butterflies and bees are important garden visitors — they’re both pollinators, which means they help plants reproduce. When ...

Pollinators are responsible for about 75% of the food we eat. The European honey bee is the most well known, but our native bees are also critically important. We can help our native bees and gardens ...

The lack of four-season food sources is one of the leading causes of the world’s declining bee populations. At certain times of year, there simply isn’t enough nutrition in the natural environment to ...

As warm weather finally begins to filter into Michigan, gardeners may be wondering how they can welcome back pollinators with a bee-friendly garden. Filling your garden with native plants that attract ...

There are some 20,000 different species of bees here on planet Earth, and of those 20,000 species, one out of every four are at risk of extinction, according to The Bee Conservancy. Why should that ...

You’re probably already familiar with bumblebees and honey bees. But there’s a lot more to the insect than that. California alone is home to over 1,600 species of bees, including some you might never ...

Many people conflate all bees together, but native solitary bees are actually very different from honeybees. Solitary bees are native, while honeybees are introduced species. Honeybees in Arizona are ...

The state is home to more than 1,000 species of bees—from miner bees, which dig their nests in the ground, to squash bees, which you can sometimes catch napping on zucchini flowers. Nearly 10% of all ...

I’m personally allergic to bee stings. I discovered that the hard way when I had to rush to an emergency room as my whole body was swelling in reaction to a bee sting—but I’m still going to celebrate ...