With the honey bee crisis continuing, it's even more important to encourage native bees to ensure good pollination in the backyard vegetable garden and orchard. Just one hive is plenty for the average ...

In the pollinator meadow at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, the bee hotels are bustling with activity. Armed with massive pincers, leafcutter bees from the family Megachilidae dart in and ...

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“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 ...