Gardens often attract wildlife—whether the gardeners like it or not. And while people often don’t think about wildlife in cities, it turns out that urban gardens often attract more rare birds and bees. That’s because …
Researchers are collaborating to sequence genomes for as many bee species in the United States as they can, including many that are facing declines. The project, dubbed Beenome100, will be made public for other researchers …
Dozens of rickety, old office cubicle-sized pens line up next to each in the U.S. Geological Survey’s Eastern Ecological Science Center at the Patuxent Research Refuge in Maryland. The ones sitting closest to a colorful, …
Southeastern sandhill cellophane bees are so rare that they were only discovered in 1997 in Florida, and just a single specimen was discovered in Georgia that same year. But researchers recently discovered a cluster of …
A bee specimen collected in Nevada presumably in the 1870s sat in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University for years with researchers unable to determine where it belonged on the bee tree of …
They may be tiny and sky bound but it turns out bees have just as much difficulty crossing busy roads in Michigan as larger species that make use of crossing structures over or under busy …
About 500 bee species —14% of all of the bee species known in the United States — can be found in the Chihuahuan Desert at the border of the U.S. and Mexico. “That’s an amazing …
Bee species that can easily change their pollination behavior have a better chance of survival in an area of California that’s under stress from agriculture and climate change. Intensive monoculture farming in the Central Valley …
About a quarter of bee native bee species haven’t been seen in several decades, according to a recent study published in One Earth. The analysis of bee sightings around the world since 1900 relied on …
After mapping bee species worldwide for the first time, researchers found that unlike other wildlife, there’s less bee species richness near the equator and higher diversity in deserts. “We wanted to create the first modern …
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