Experts say the bee species keeps the Amazon's ecosystems pollinated and produces honey with medicinal properties ...

There’s some buzz happening in Oklahoma and Texas after a new species of mining bee has been discovered and named, according to the journal Ecology and Evolution. The species Andrena androfovea has ...

NORMAN, Okla. (KFOR) – A new species of bee has been discovered in Oklahoma and Texas, according to the University of Oklahoma. New species of bee in Oklahoma. Image courtesy University of Oklahoma.

Worldwide, there are over 20,000 bee species in seven Families. Some commonly encountered and recognizable genera in eastern North America are described below. Since 2006, when large die-offs of honey ...

Female (left) and male (right) Xanthesma (Xenohesma) brachycera. Images are anterior (a and b), lateral (c and d), and dorsal (e and f). Scale bars are 0.5 mm. Credit: Australian Journal of Taxonomy ...

Minnesota is also home to numerous rare and specialist species that were recorded in the state for the first time. New research revealed Minnesota hosts a high number of bee species, including many ...

Stingless bees in the Peruvian Amazon have become the first insects anywhere in the world to receive legal rights. The unprecedented move grants the native pollinators formal protection across large ...

(TMX) - A striking new bee species with tiny devil-like horns has been discovered in Western Australia’s Goldfields, offering fresh insight into how much remains unknown about the country’s native ...

A few years ago, Adrian Carper, who is in my department and also the Museum of Natural History at the University of Colorado Boulder, told me about a species of bee that could chew nest holes into ...

The following six families of bees are found in the New York City area: the Colletidae (18 species), Halictidae (46 species), Andrenidae (63 species), Melittidae (3 species, although these have not ...