As a designated National Geographic Explorer, Bertie Gregory traverses the globe documenting wild life in all its complexity.
There are five social species of bumble bees (Bombus spp.) native to Florida, and each is an important pollinator throughout the state. Although European honeybees make up about 85 percent of our ...
For many years now, there has been a very strong movement to bring attention to the importance of pollinators in our ecosystem. From my view within the garden industry, this movement has created ...
A yard without pollinators feels like a party with no music. No hum, no flutter, no life dancing between petals. Bees and ...
As the blossoms bloom across Northern Michigan, amateur apiarists are getting ready for a fruitful season with their hardest workers, the bee. The Great Lakes Bee Company held their annual bee pick up ...
As bee populations dwindle globally due to a myriad of factors such as climate change, pesticide use, and habitat loss, the need for innovative solutions to sustain vital pollination processes becomes ...
It can be hard to get bees to do their vital work in indoor farms or greenhouses. Instead, the plants may need a little robotic assistance to reproduce. Out in a field, tomato plants are pollinated ...
Carpenter bees don’t get as much attention as honeybees, but they’re essential to cross-pollinate plants in Missouri and Kansas. Pat Sullivan AP file photo While honeybees experience a national moment ...
There are lots of things that can be planted. You can plant flowers, bushes, trees and other plants. You can plant your feet.
Biological invasions are a major driver of biodiversity loss and invasive pollinators can reshape native plant-pollinator ...