Join Kevin as he demonstrates the step-by-step process of splitting a native bee hive using the innovative 'Stiller' Collapse ...
The term pollinators is broad and includes all animals that transfer pollen, which contains DNA, from one flower to another. The most well-known pollinators are European honeybees, but the term also ...
Over 400 native bee species exist in New York, most of which are solitary ground-nesters. Native bees are vital pollinators, especially for certain fruits and vegetables, using a "buzz pollination" ...
Smoke pours over the colony of bees, dousing the air in a sweet, earthy smell of burning wood. Drake Elting holds the smoker ...
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 ...
With the first day of spring, March 20, now here, it is time to sweep the cobwebs from the tools in the garden shed and start ...
This has been a question I’ve been asked and the point of lengthy discussion for many, many years now. The short answer is both! Why? Because planting biodiversity is the key to growing a healthy ...
Many people conflate all bees together, but native solitary bees are actually very different from honeybees. Solitary bees are native, while honeybees are introduced species. Honeybees in Arizona are ...
“When California was wild, it was one sweet bee garden throughout its entire length, north and south and all the way across from the snowy Sierra to the ocean,” wrote John Muir in 1894’s “The ...