Smithsonian writer Susan Freinkel and self-proclaimed bee enthusiast Michael Veit about the future of bees through the lens ...

March in New England brings the earliest signs of spring. Plants that have been dormant all winter start to wake up and so do ...

REGISTER HERE. As their name suggests, ground bees are insects that nest in the ground, as opposed to more social bees that nest in the open or in tree cavities. Although bees can be beneficial to ...

The species she came across belongs to the genus Diadasia, which are considered solitary bees. This means that, unlike honeybees for example, they do not build hives and live as a collective. Instead, ...

As temperatures rise, native ground-nesting bees are among the first to emerge. For most of my life, I confess that I was terrified of bees. Growing up in Florida, where stinging insects are ...