What Are Bee Flies? “What is this strange insect on my plumbago? Is it a pollinator?” asks Birds & Blooms reader Caitlin Buelow of Vail, Arizona. Birds & Blooms experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman say, ...

Idaho master melittologist program volunteers Sarah Correll and Kris Ablin-Stone participate in microscope training at the College of Idaho in Caldwell April 5. (Brad Carlson/Capital Press) A ...

Carpenter bees look a little like bumblebees, but that is where the similarities end. Bumblebees do not create their own nests, so they do not cause structural damage. In contrast, carpenter bees bore ...

Volunteers with Idaho’s new master melittologist program train at Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge near Nampa on Sept. 12. Cataloging Idaho bees will benefit crops and the ecosystem, according to ...

It’s easy to miss the shiny face of Augochloropsis anonyma without a microscope — the bee grows to only about 8 millimeters long. But this iridescent bee native to the southeastern United States is ...

A rare bee species native to New York state was discovered in Syracuse at a SUNY College of Environmental Science and ...

Scientists attached radio-frequency identification tags to hundreds of individual honey bees and tracked them for several weeks. The effort yielded two discoveries: Some foraging bees are much busier ...

There are simple steps to take to protect species that are under threat. Bumblebees are some of our most effective pollinators, but more than one-quarter of the species is facing extinction. Bees, ...