Bees are a welcome sight in our gardens. Without the help of bees (and other pollinators) pollinating many of our plants, we wouldn’t be able to enjoy the myriad of flowers, fruits and vegetables we ...

For all their size and menacing behavior, male carpenter bees are nothing but nectar-loving wimps. The bees have begun to emerge from their hibernation tunnels and the males are trying their best to ...

A few weeks back, during one of the warmer days of April, I was sitting on our back porch enjoying the spring air. What looked like a plump bumblebee was circling and darting about and then zoomed up ...

It’s a warm summer day. Carpenter bees are cruising lazily through the air, pausing from time to time to investigate a flower. Like butterflies, they go perfectly with the season. Females create and ...

Two years ago, Cynthia Typaldos sent a slightly off-topic note to our native plants e-mail list: "I saw an enormous orange bee yesterday in a grape vine. Twice as big as my resident bumble bees. All ...