Closeup of a bumblebee on a pink flower - 49pauly/Getty Images Bees are super important — and it's not just the honeybees. While often overlooked, native bees pollinate the vast majority of flowering ...

Worldwide, there are over 20,000 bee species in seven Families. Some commonly encountered and recognizable genera in eastern North America are described below. Since 2006, when large die-offs of honey ...

Carmen da Silva of Macquarie University's Pollinator Futures Research Center examined nearly 3,500 bees from 95 native ...

A new study by Curtin and Flinders Universities has found that what were thought to be two different species of native Australian bee are in fact one. Lead researcher Dr. Kit Prendergast from the ...

If you've ever been stung by a honeybee, you likely know they died soon after. Though seems like a tall sacrifice, there are ...

With about 600 different species of bees in Washington, you would think it would be easy to spot one. But that black and yellow insect you see quickly darting from flower to flower could just as ...

Bees have many different ways of building their homes. Many people will be familiar with the hives of European honeybees, ...

Rare bee species are foraging on native shrubs and wildflowers growing along Con Edison transmission lines according to biologists from the State University of New York’s College of Environmental ...

A major study of Australian native bees found that stem-nesting species may be the first to feel the impact of climate change ...

What happens to bee populations in areas of massive human population growth like Wake County, North Carolina, where the population is more than 16 times greater than it was at the turn of the 20th ...

(TMX) - A striking new bee species with tiny devil-like horns has been discovered in Western Australia’s Goldfields, offering fresh insight into how much remains unknown about the country’s native ...