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A concrete plant reimagined as a garden along the Bronx River offers training for workers to meet NYC’s promise of more green ...
WILLIAMSPORT, Ohio (AP) — Sweat covers Isaac Barnes’s face under his beekeeper’s veil as he hauls boxes of honeycomb from his ...
Most of the bees in Arizona are Africanized "killer" bees. Here's what happens if you get stung by a killer bee and how to get rid of them.
Most of the bees in Arizona are Africanized "killer" bees. Here's what happens if you get stung by a killer bee and how to get rid of them.
Like other members of its genus, female red-backed cellophane bees have special glands that produce a sticky substance with which the bees line the inside of their nest burrows.
The second half of May is peak season for one of the Vineyard’s most interesting bees, Colletes thoracicus, sometimes called the red-backed cellophane bee. Not exactly rare on the Island, the ...
On the eighth annual "World Bee Day," the bees did not seem bothered. They should be. Bees and other pollinators have been on the decline for years, and experts blame a combination of factors ...
On closer examination, I realized they were cellophane bees. I think I had just scuffed over their nest holes! Then I noticed a number of bee nest holes in the area where I had not scuffed.
Ask the Gardener: The buzz about making space for pollinators like bees Plus, uncovering ways for underground colonies to flourish.
While honey bees nest in trees and bumble bees nest in the ground, carpenter bees nest in wood.