The second half of May is peak season for one of the Vineyard’s most interesting bees, Colletes thoracicus, sometimes called ...

are one well-known exception), nesting in cavities in rocks and wood or on the ground in leaves and woody debris. There are about 20,000 wild bee species globally and 3,600 in the United States ...

Borders between farmers' fields, for example, are critical to wild bees, which nest primarily on or in the ground among dried leaves, stalks and sticks. One species, the eastern snail shell mason ...

“That can be detrimental to wild bees. If we really want to say ... Most of them are solitary and nest in the ground. Most don’t have queens. They don’t do dances to find honey.

These man-made boxes, designed to facilitate pollination and honey production in an era before animal welfare was considered, are the hives in which scientists study honey bees. However, these boxes ...

An international research project has been launched to uncover how wild honey bee colonies survive and thrive in the wild ...