Spring is top breeding season for many animals, and if you start noticing different nests around your home, here is how to differentiate common ones.

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Perhaps the first thing you’ll notice is the enormous proboscis that sticks way out in front of its face. Then you may be struck by how much its rotund, furry body looks like a bee. And, in fact, its ...

The tree bumblebee is one of the first bumblebee species to appear in spring. Tree bumblebees stir from their hibernation remarkably early, in February and March. Here, we’re talking about queen ...

A new paper provides the first statistically derived estimate of bee species richness around the world. But this is about more than bees.

The world has far more bees than anyone realized. Scientists have, for the first time, estimated just how many species of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have identified eight bee species never before recorded in Washington state. The discoveries were made in Chelan ...

LOS ANGELES — In the arid, cracked desert ground in Southern California, a tiny bee pokes its head out of a hole no larger than the tip of a crayon. Krystle Hickman crouches over with her specialized ...

A rare "nationally scarce" bee has been spotted in Cornwall in a "triumph for insect biodiversity." Local entomologist Paddy Saunders and Nick Holden, from the National Trust, were left "delighted" ...

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A new count of Vermont’s bee species has identified nine species not previously reported in the state, bringing the total number of species here to 352, more than any other northern New England state.