The needs of native bees are simple: food and a home. Depending on the bee, the requirements for a home differ, of course. For example, ground-nesting bees n...

Learn to make a bumble bee nest box for your own backyard.

The Institute for Applied Ecology is a conservation organization that promotes species diversity, restoration, and healthy interactions between humans and na...

Joe is a big fan of the Netflix show "Stranger Things." However, he also knows he can find as much drama, suspense, and intrigue by simply "binge watching" t...

Can native bees sting? The answer is yes, sort of, it's kind of complicated.

We have talked about the bees in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument for a while now. There are 660 species in this monument. Our initial study was c...

People are often made aware of some amazing and unique bees around the world, particularly as news of bee declines is spread around. What people might not be...

When Joe and I first started studying bees, the most common question we were asked by curious folks was, "Do you get stung a lot?", followed by them relating...

Most bees are not yellow and black like we see in the cartoons. Instead, bees come in a rainbow of colors, from red, yellow and orange, to blue, green and pu...

Princeton did a little Q&A with us (who we are, what our favorite bees are, our thoughts on bee declines and conservation, etc.)  They've published it on the...

It seems we all know that pollinators (especially bees, who do most of the pollinating) are important, but did you know they aren't doing it on purpose? Poll...

To best understand bees, one needs to know exactly what a bee is.  The answer is, at the outset, simple, but there are complications. First off, bees are ins...