A public comment period ends today, January 27, 2025, on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) proposed critical habitat ...

In the end, piles of sand, bee hotels and honeybee hives won’t help wild bees. Instead, we should be planting more ...

Habitat loss, pesticide contamination, disease spillover from domesticated bee colonies, and other threats combine to accelerate the species’ decline. The Center petitioned to protect the American ...

Biodiversity is declining across the planet, but what about in Wisconsin, how do we measure it, and how can we stop it?

Wasps commonly nest in a wide variety of sites, including on and inside buildings, in trees and in the ground. Wasps will generally not bother people when their nests are not near human activity. When ...

Bumble bees are a generalist and will feed on a variety ... For over a decade beekeepers have reported high loss rates of managed colonies, and the causes of these losses are parasites and disease ...

Bumblebees with pesticide exposure experience hormetic stress responses with impacts on future generations and reproduction.

However, unlike the bumblebee, carpenter bees have a ... Unlike social bees, carpenter bees do not live in colonies. Instead, they excavate tunnels in wood to create nests that they return to ...

But bees are able to sacrifice a few for the good of the colony. That's how they operate ... So I do a lot of work with public participation. So we do bumblebee surveys across the state.

By Theodore Ross There is a … buzz around the FERN offices these days, one that I attribute to the release of the first episode of Buzzkill, our six-episode podcast series on the pollinator crisis.

Living up to its name, the red-tailed bumblebee is black ... It is a social bee, nesting in old burrows, or under stones. As with other social insects, the queen emerges from hibernation in spring and ...