or that it’s just one of about 20,000 species of bees worldwide, with the vast majority of the native species in North America being “solitary bees.” These types of bees, which don’t have a queen or ...

A 23-year-old ecologist known as "The Bee Man" is on a mission to conserve solitary pollinators by building them structures ...

The United States has an amazing and diverse array of native bees. Across the country live about 4,000 native bee species — most of which are solitary and nest in the ground — coming in nearly every ...

It also emits an aphid-imitating smell. This leads certain hoverfly species whose young feed on aphids to wrongly believe the plant will offer their predatory brood plenty to eat. When the female lays ...

Only 10% of these species are social bees, like honey bees and bumblebees. The other 90% are solitary bees. Many of us may ...

What measures are suitable for providing better living conditions for insects in typical german landscapes? This question was ...

Pulling over for a closer look, Karine soon discovered that the 'ants' were in fact bees. The species she came across belongs to the genus Diadasia, which are considered solitary bees. This means that ...

There are more than 250 species of bee in the UK, including the honey bee that normally lives in hives that are managed by beekeepers. Others, like many species of bumblebees and solitary bees live in ...