The recent cold weather has been hard on some fruit crops, but it's been even harder on bees, which are very important to ...

A red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) in its winter quarters, a reed stalk. When wild bees like this hatch at the right time after a long winter break, they have enough energy reserves left to take flight ...

A beehive uses up to a quart of water a day for survival and other functions.

Installing a bee house or bee hotel in your garden is an easy way to make your space more attractive to pollinators and support solitary bees, such as yellow-faced bees, mason bees, and leafcutter ...

A large-scale experiment shows that warmth brings bees and wasps out of hibernation earlier –leaving some of them with poorer starting conditions. This is particularly true for species in cooler ...