Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bee carrying pollen heads toward its beehive Frank Rumpenhorst/dpa Smoke pours over the colony of bees, dousing the air in a ...

If you sit in nature and really look, there’s a good chance you’ll see a native Florida bee. They just may not look how you expect. There are more than 320 bee species in Florida, of which about 30 ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission emphasizes the importance of Florida’s native bee species in a Facebook post.Florida’s native bee species play a vitally important role in our ...

Did you know Pollinator Week begins June 17, and runs through Sunday, June 23? To celebrate, let’s look at some of our important pollinators. First, a botany review: Pollination occurs when pollen is ...

The variety of the state’s bees, and their many quirks, may surprise you. A blue calamintha bee visits a Ashe’s calamint plant. The blue bee is critically imperiled and found in a few Florida areas, ...

Native plants support native insects, which maintain seed production and support migratory birds that keep the terrestrial ...

You can see them out gathering pollen sometimes, on a warm sunny winter day. It helps if you have some nectar and pollen plants. Recently I was at a local nursery and saw a table full of Gaillardia.

Something is happening in the sprawling fields of the American South that doesn’t quite add up on paper. Despite the fact that cotton, peanuts, and soybeans are perfectly capable of producing a ...

During a cool fall sunset in North Dakota, forklifts buzz around the base of a flatbed trailer, loading pallets. Their cargo, multicolored boxes that look like filing cabinets, buzzes, too. Each box ...

Smoke pours over the colony of bees, dousing the air in a sweet, earthy smell of burning wood. Drake Elting holds the smoker while Stephanie Ramthun pulls out a wooden slat covered in buzzing ...