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

Across the country live about 4,000 native bee species — most of which are solitary and nest in the ground — coming in nearly every color of the rainbow and ranging widely in size. The country harbors ...

Biodiversity is under threat worldwide. While the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem ...

By Bobby Bascomb Insect conservation NGO the Xerces Society recently petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ...

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

There also needs to be a selection of certain flowers planted nearby, because different species of solitary bees are attracted to different species of plants, and only fly so far to get to them.

Gulf Coast solitary bee and Mojave poppy bee, a solitary and specialist pollinator that depends on a plant species called the Las Vegas bearpoppy, also named in the notice. A growing body of evidence ...

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 the wild. Bees in a modern, industrialised world ...