Bumble bees—vital and fuzzy pollinators—face unique threats amidst global insect declines. If the insect world has a fuzzy, charismatic cutie, it’s surely the humble bumble bee. While insect ...

DEAR JOAN: I have an echium fastuosum (Pride of Madeira) on a corner of my property in full sun. It’s blooming now, and it attracts lots of all kinds of bees — mainly honeybees, but also the striped ...

The world's bees are in big trouble and we all need to work together to save our little, fuzzy friends and raise awareness about the situation they are in. There are tons of ways we can create a buzz ...

What Is a Carpenter Bee? Carpenter bees are large (up to an inch long) solitary bees in the genus Xylocopa. There are hundreds of species of these big buzzy fliers around the world, with nine in the ...

You know how the bees have been disappearing because of pesticides, climate change, and maybe actually being aliens? It turns out that the pollinator population is actually flourishing, at least in ...

What the team did for colors in their Good Night, Sweet Butterflies, they now do for sound in Buzz-Buzz, Busy Bees: An Animal Sounds Book by Dawn Bentley, illus. by Heather Cahoon. Beginning with nine ...

Bees are fantastic pollinators. Without them, ecosystems would not thrive. Unfortunately, over the last 15 years, there has been a significant decline in both bee colonies and individual bees due to ...