Question: When I go out early in the morning to work in my garden, I notice bumble bees that appear to be sleeping in some of ...

One of the amusements a garden can provide is watching the birds, bees, butterflies and other critters drawn to it. Most of us have seen honeybees flying from flower to flower, sipping nectar or ...

She started her parkway garden, her first big native plant “experiment,” with a 4-by-4-foot bed between the sidewalk and the ...

Kamloops nature lover Darrel Frolek has been finding, photographing and identifying numerous insect species this year ...

March in New England brings the earliest signs of spring. Plants that have been dormant all winter start to wake up and so do insects. As temperatures rise, native ground-nesting bees are among the ...

Andony Melathopoulos, a pollinator specialist at Oregon State University, holds a metallic sweat bee bumblebee from his collection. By Jane Arterberry and Jubilee Likayi ­ Bumblebees buzz around a ...

A bee is not just a bee when you start really looking at it. Most people know of the classic honey bee and the fuzzy, somewhat adorable bumble bee, but in Colorado alone there are more than 900 ...

Researchers have figured out which plant species bumble bees prefer to include in their diets, providing advice to those wishing to help with bee conservation efforts. During the summer months of 2015 ...

What Kelowna gardener Jen Frost found in her garden eating a tomato last week was a bumble flower beetle. “It was flying ...