Missouri and Kansas are home to approximately 400 different bee species. Some residents are turning their yards and balconies into havens of native plants. To Tom Schroeder, every bee is a work of art ...

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 ...

Honeybees have never been in danger of extinction. But scientists are finding that they can accelerate the demise of native bee populations.

“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 ...

Many people conflate all bees together, but native solitary bees are actually very different from honeybees. Solitary bees are native, while honeybees are introduced species. Honeybees in Arizona are ...

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.