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

There are over 4,000 native North American garden bee species, in addition to the European honeybee, and many are in decline. Most native bees are solitary, individually nesting in tunnels rather ...

What you might not expect is that the grand majority of bee species do not produce honey or even live in hives. Roughly 77% of the bees on earth are classified as solitary. This classification exists ...

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 ...

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.

Solitary bees build their own nest, and while there may be aggregations ... “They are the most frequent wild bee visitors to apple flowers.” One species, the Carolina minor bee, almost exclusively ...

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.

There are more than 4,000 species of ground and twig nesting ... mason bees and polyester bees — lead a solitary life. What do these bees need and how can we support them? In our home gardens ...