In the last three years, on behalf of the Pennsylvania Bee Monitoring Program, 20 master gardeners from around Pennsylvania have netted and trapped more than 25,000 specimens across 25 counties. They ...

Viruses spread from honey bees to wild bees through shared flowers, threatening pollination and plant communities.

There are nearly 4,000 native bee species in the United States, contributing to pollination in agricultural, urban and natural landscapes. Honey bees, however, are not native to the U.S., which has ...

Resource overlap between wild bees and honeybees on Giannutri Island. Credit: Current Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.02.048 Researchers from the University of Florence and University of Pisa ...

Since 2018, honeybees have feasted on wildflowers across a remote Italian island called Giannutri every spring. But for the last four years, Lorenzo Pasquali had the unusual task of shutting the ...

Clay Bolt and Shane trace the decline of wild bees — and fight to bring them back. Wild bees like the rusty-patched bumble bee are vanishing — but not without a fight. Conservation photographer Clay ...