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?

But they do have stingers. So treat them with care if you find one buzzing around you on a hot summer day. Sweat bees are all members ... you know what type of nest to look for.

Bees evolved from wasps and ... provisioning their simple nests with a taffy-like mixture of nectar and pollen known as “bee bread.” Look closely at the head of a bee and you’ll see three ...

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

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, ...