As spring has sprung in the Wabash Valley, bees, wasps, and ticks are coming out of hibernation and it is important to ...

For decades, there was no record of Andrena rehni exisiting in the US. In 2018 it was found in Maryland and five years later I found it in New York State ...

Millions of years ago, bees evolved from meat-munching wasps, but little is known about their transition from carnivorous insect to flower-seeking pollen-eater. A newly discovered fossilized bee, ...

Honey bees aren’t the only insects that pollinate crops, but we often overlook or lump together all other, non-bee pollinators – flies, beetles, moths, butterflies, wasps, ants, birds, and bats, just ...

Wild bumblebees serve as key hosts for acute bee paralysis virus. While the virus appears to cause little harm to bumblebees, ...

There are seven species of Apis honey bee in the world, all of them native to Asia, Europe, and Africa. Apis mellifera, the western honey bee, is the species recognized globally as “the honey bee.” ...

Spring flooding was supposed to be a death sentence for them. Buried underground, dormant, with no way to surface, bumble bee ...

Beyond the grief of losing these tiny, bumbling insects, there’s the painful hit to the state’s wallet. Fewer bees, managed or native, means less juicy fruit and vegetables, and less money for Florida ...

Several long-lost species, turned up by citizen-scientists with nets and specimen jars, had not been seen in Washington for a ...