The life cycle begins underground where developing bees spend up to eleven months from the time an egg is laid until they emerge as adults in spring. What do digger bee nests look like?

On a subzero morning, I clip into skis and head out across my meadow, gliding between desiccated husks of sundial lupine ...

That can be confusing for many species, like ... bees in a hive. So starting to build nests in the winter could add to the decline in bumblebee numbers. According to the Wildlife Trusts ...

She recounts how 'the ground suddenly become pockmarked with hundreds of volcano-like turrets ... solitary bees. This means that, unlike honeybees for example, they do not build hives and live as a ...

"But these bees don't actually eat the wood as food," says Emma Grace Crumbley, an entomologist with Mosquito Squad. "Just like other ... "They do not make honey. In fact, their nests are ...

For more advice, take a look at the Bumblebee Conservation Trust’s guide to gardening. If you have space, leave a section of the garden untended – some bees nest ... do it by hand as much as possible, ...

Bumblebees have been found to be starting nests in the depths of winter due to climate change, say conservationists. The charity Buglife said active worker bumblebees, which do most of the work in ...