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There are an awful lot of bees on the loose this weekend in the United States. On Friday, a tractor-trailer carrying more ...
I wrote recently about pollinator-friendly plants and, in response, an email from Susan Savolainen, who gardens in Banning, ...
About 250 million honeybees took to the skies when a commercial truck carrying them overturned in Washington state near the Canadian border ...
A truck carrying 70,000 pounds of honey bee hives tipped over in Whatcom County Friday morning. Why that’s not as strange as ...
"Hive boxes from the overturned truck were recovered, restored and returned to use," the sheriff's office said in an update ...
When beekeepers introduced honeybees to a protected island, wild bees nearly vanished. Could removing the hives reverse the ...
Q. My neighbor, who owned two hives of bees, moved during the winter and took his hives with him. I am concerned about the ...
The Xerces Society advises that “every honeybee hive deprives over 100,000 native ... One alternative is to raise mason bees, aka blue orchard bees. They’re native, gentle, stingerless ...
Instead of spreading pollen from flower to flower, the honeybee carries most of the pollen back to the hive. But behold the humble mason bee! Also called the blue orchard bee, it inelegantly ...