When gardening, you have probably seen large, fuzzy, yellow and black bumble bees zipping from flower to flower, collecting pollen and nectar to bring back to their nests. Perhaps you have also seen ...

The change of seasons is a necessary part of ecosystem regulation. With the buzzing activities of humans and insects alike, winter gives us a chance to encourage a natural rhythm. As the first signs ...

Colorado's warm winter is causing bee colonies to break dormancy early, burning through honey stores and raising starvation risk over the next six to eight weeks.

Bees and wasps provide many ecological services, including pollinating and feeding on garden pests such as caterpillars. But now that chilly days have arrived in most of the Southeast, you may wonder ...

HATTIESBURG — As the autumn bloom fades and his bees brace for the first cold snap, beekeeper Steven Coy is still reckoning with last winter’s losses, when 62% of his roughly 2,000 honeybee colonies ...

When the first frost bites and the last of the summer blooms fade away, most gardens fall silent. But just because the temperature drops doesn’t mean your backyard has to turn into a ghost town.

The bees are working very hard to collect all of the pollen they can. Nectar is very scarce at this time of the year, and the pollen will be one of their winter’s food sources. The collection of fall ...