Once the insects realize they can't go in or out, they'll likely search for other areas to create nests. Ground bees thrive in dry, sandy soil with sparse vegetation, such as grass and weeds.

It should have two rooms: one filled with wood shavings for the queen to breed in, the other an empty compartment where the rest of the bees live. Bumblebees may also nest in tussocks of grass or ...

Mirroring the mechanisms that make human faces and bodies—and those of many multicellular organisms—symmetrical, bee colonies build symmetrical nests when they are placed on either side of a ...

Solvin Zankl (Germany) carefully watches a two-coloured mason bee build the roof of its nest. While exploring a favourite haunt ... with pollen and nectar for their larvae, then seal it with grass and ...