When most people think of bees, they picture honey bees buzzing around a hive. But honey bees are just a small part of a much larger story. Worldwide, there are more than 20,000 known bee species, ...

Carpenter bees might be pollinators, but they can also be undesirable due to the holes they drill. But are the bees living in ...

(Beyond Pesticides, April 16, 2026) A study of organic tomato agroecosystems with managed and wild bees, published in Apidologie, affirms the importance of protecting natural systems to support ...

Caterpillars provide more energy from plants to animals than any other insect. Our native solitary bees pollinate native flowering plants, which maintains plant diversity - they need help, too. 5% of ...

It can be hard to get bees to do their vital work in indoor farms or greenhouses. Instead, the plants may need a little robotic assistance to reproduce. Out in a field, tomato plants are pollinated ...

Happy pollinators, happy plants.

There are five social species of bumble bees (Bombus spp.) native to Florida, and each is an important pollinator throughout the state. Although European honeybees make up about 85 percent of our ...

That vote came after Celebrate Lexington identified several local flowers and surveyed the public. During Pollinator Week, ...

Carmen da Silva of Macquarie University's Pollinator Futures Research Center examined nearly 3,500 bees from 95 native ...

New Oxford University-led research reveals that bees can regulate their feeding to avoid overconsuming certain essential ...

Bee species that nest in plant stems appear to be at the greatest short-term risk from increasing temperatures due to climate ...