Although rock gardens are lovely and can be a huge eye-catching feature in your yard, some ground-nesting bees will substitute secure rock piles for burrows if the soil is too hard to dig.

Carpenter bees bore round holes into wood siding and rails. Here's how to identify them and keep them from doing serious damage. It’s easy to confuse carpenter bees with bumblebees, since both ...

Of the more than 20,000 bee species in the world, 70% nest in the ground. And like many of their counterparts that nest above ground, these bees are facing rapid population declines. But while ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) -While honey bees nest in trees and bumble bees nest in the ground, carpenter bees nest in wood. Most carpenter bees spend their time around dead wood. They get their name ...

With about 600 different species of bees in Washington, you would think it would be easy to spot one. But that black and yellow insect you see quickly darting from flower to flower could just as easil ...

Social bees construct nests in hollows, using wax. Their nests are very distinctive and generally a light yellow to golden color, depending on the resources available to them.

Scientists with the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation (a national nonprofit organization) have observed that ground-nesting bees often nest at the edge between lawn and garden.

Those big bumble bees and wasps you might have seen in your garden are likely the queens preparing their nests and colonies for summer.

The majority of the world’s bee species – 70 percent – nest in the ground. Some nice folks cordoned it off to protect the bees. They build turrets, but only some of them are vertical.

What Are Carpenter Bees and How to Stop ThemchLearn how to identify carpenter bees, the damage they can cause, and the best ways to prevent them from turning your home into their nesting ground ...

Published this week in Austral Entomology, it examines the soil type preferences of ground-nesting bees and provides a simple, practical approach to enhancing their habitats.