Bees are distinctive for their black and yellow coloring, but did you know some species are blue? The blue-banded bee is a ...

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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Valley's sprawling nut and fruit orchards are preparing to pop and come into full bloom. Bee boxes, some of them colorful, have already been set up to prepare for ...

Commercial honeybee hives are collapsing around the country, and scientists want to know how to enhance the role of native bees. Watch the video report. To a honeybee, a cranberry bog is like Willy ...

Although we’re in the middle of winter, soon we’ll witness the unveiling of springtime and all of its joyous colors: brilliant orange poppies, deep purple iris and vivid yellow tidy tips. And after ...

With the honey bee crisis continuing, it's even more important to encourage native bees to ensure good pollination in the backyard vegetable garden and orchard. Just one hive is plenty for the average ...

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Bees aren’t the only pollinators out there. Some of the other, more surprising pollinators aren't just unconventional, they ...

If you want more bees, butterflies, and helpful hoverflies in your yard, you don’t need a pricey “pollinator garden kit.” The ...

For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter ...

Bees and butterflies might be the best-known pollinators, but they aren’t the only ones. Bats, birds, beetles, wasps and flies play an important role, too. Rae Olsson, a postdoctoral research ...