A new study finds carrying pollen is a workout that significantly increases the body temperature of bumble bees. This new understanding of active bumble bee body temperatures raises questions about ...

A recent NC State study shows bees heat up when carrying pollen, raising new questions about how climate change-related temperature increases could impact vital pollinator populations. As Triangle ...

Many types of bees share our yards and gardens, one of which is the leafcutter bee (Megachile). These bees are active from spring through late September in our area. They are generally dark-colored ...

Bees look for water on an outdoor tap in Berlin, Germany during a hot spell, June 19, 2022. Wolfram Steinberg/picture alliance via Getty Images The extreme weather that has battered much of the U.S.

The bees are working very hard to collect all of the pollen they can. Nectar is very scarce at this time of the year, and the pollen will be one of their winter’s food sources. The collection of fall ...

They may not be The Ritz Carlton, The Plaza or even a Holiday Inn, but bee hotels house important guests. Native bees are among the many different welcome and necessary pollinators in landscapes.

“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 ...