Smaller fields and organic crops can boost pollinator diversity in grasslands
Biodiversity is under threat worldwide. While the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem ...
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A new bee species was discovered in Texas and Oklahoma. Here's what to know.
How much rain will we get? According to Texas Parks and Wildlife, there are at least 1,100 native bee species in Texas, possibly up to 1,500. Bees are the primary pollinators of native plants ...
Endangered bee species may delay $114 million Highway 5 project
An endangered bumble bee may delay the $114 million Highway 5 Improvements Project. In January 2017 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) put the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee (Bombus Affinis) on ...
Bee hotels are a misplaced attempt to help nature
In the end, piles of sand, bee hotels and honeybee hives won’t help wild bees. Instead, we should be planting more ...
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New blue bee species found in Texas
The discovery marks a new type of Andrena bee, of which there are 1,500 species and 104 subgenera (a classification under genus) worldwide, "making it one of the largest genera of animals on the ...