Wild Cam: From whooping cranes to pollinator paradise
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 ...
Bees
Researchers spot rare native bees in Georgia
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 ...
Researchers resolve mystery bee genus
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 ...
How does the bee cross the road?
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 ...
U.S.-Mexico border a native bee hot spot
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. ...
Flexible bees fare better
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 ...
A quarter of bee species haven’t been seen in decades
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 ...
Mapping bee species first step toward understanding declines
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 ...
Bark beetle outbreaks benefit wild bees
While bark beetle outbreaks can be problematic for western forests, they may actually be a boon to wild bee populations. “These large natural disturbances should ...
Monarchs, bees use cultivated milkweeds as much as wild ones
Monarch butterflies and bee species use ornamental milkweed plants — the kind sold at garden centers — just as much as they use native plants, researchers ...