DEAR JOAN: I’ve done a lot with my backyard to make it much more pollinator- and hummingbird-friendly. I’m planning to make it an even better habitat for native bees by including more native plants ...

The United States has an amazing and diverse array of native bees. Across the country live about 4,000 native bee species — most of which are solitary and nest in the ground — coming in nearly every ...

Seven years ago, Andrea Montoya took her grandson to play in Boulder Creek – and her life changed forever. “My husband said, ‘Did you see that structure over there? That’s called a bee house,'” ...

Spring has finally arrived in the U.S., bringing its bright spectacle of budding trees and migrating birds, along with more subtle but equally important changes—among them, the first emergence of ...

If the governments of Australia can invest millions into the honeybee industry, they surely have the resources to support ...

This spring, I was getting scared because I saw so few bees in any of the gardens I visited. Finally in early May, whew! Bees of many kinds began to appear, along with many other insect pollinators.

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Well, we blinked, and now it’s August, usually the dog days of summer, a.k.a. SoCal’s hottest temps of the year, when your zucchini go into hyperdrive and your tomatoes stop producing because it’s ...

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