New research found that more than 22% of native pollinators in North America are at an elevated risk of extinction.

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 ...

What a bee is: an introduction -- A bee for all seasons: Apis mellifera, the European honey bee -- Did greenhouse tomatoes kill the last Franklin's bumble bee? -- Osmia lignaria, the great and ...

Ari Daniel - Host, "There's More to That" Native bees in the United States are dying due to pesticides, disease and habitat loss. These insects play a critical role in nature and on farms, yet we know ...

Honey bees and other pollinating insects contribute billions of dollars to the American economy. (Photo by Keng-Lou James Hung) Non-native honeybees are so effective at pollinating, they pose a ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the arid, cracked desert ground in Southern California, a tiny bee pokes its head out of a hole no larger than the tip of a crayon. Krystle Hickman crouches over with her ...

Clay Bolt and Shane trace the decline of wild bees — and fight to bring them back. Wild bees like the rusty-patched bumble bee are vanishing — but not without a fight. Conservation photographer Clay ...

This investigation focuses primarily on those ecological and evolutionary aspects involved in the natural history of the bees that utilize the pollen, nectar, or both, of sunflowers (Helianthus) in ...