Planting native plants for pollinators is one of the easiest and most impactful ways to support bees, butterflies, and other ...

The accusations you may have heard about nonnative honey bees aren’t backed by evidence. Entomologists explain that there are ...

As the height-of-summer floral abundance fades, goldenrods and asters fill the landscape with hits of yellow, purple, pink and white. Beyond the beauty they provide, these late bloomers are a critical ...

“When California was wild, it was one sweet bee garden throughout its entire length, north and south and all the way across from the snowy Sierra to the ocean,” wrote John Muir in 1894’s “The ...

One of the major challenges faced by pollinators is that much of their habitat has been co-opted for human use. Usually, it’s altered in ways that make it inhospitable for pollinators as well as other ...

We are constantly bombarded with terms for one thing or another. But if you are interested in providing for pollinators, ...

This spring, I was getting scared because I saw so few bees in any of the gardens I visited. Finally in early May, whew! Bees of many kinds began to appear, along with many other insect pollinators.

The United States has an amazing and diverse array of native bees. Across the country live about 4,000 native bee species — most of which are solitary and nest in the ground — coming in nearly every ...

When you think ‘bees,’ you probably think of a neat stack of white hive boxes and the jars of honey on the store shelves. But there’s a lot more to bees than the agricultural staple, the European ...

MOLINE, Ill. — The city of Moline is now officially a Bee City USA affiliate. As a Bee City, Moline joins a nationwide movement to support native bees and other local pollinators. The city now ...