This is a good method if you wish to keep sweat bees away from a very specific part of your yard, such as your outdoor ...

Hoverflies start out as maggots, eventually growing to the little flies that hover in the muggy summer air, occasionally darting around and, now and then, landing on exposed skin. Hoverflies love to ...

The sure-fire way to know whether it’s a sweat bee or a corn fly buzzing around is if it stings. The halictid bee stings, but ...

Also known as Halictidae, sweat bees are so named because they typically consume human sweat. Pest control company Orkin says the salt and moisture of sweat helps them supplement their diets of ...

SWEAT BEES IN CANADA Courtesy: Wikipedia Sweat bees are found in several countries and are native to North America. There are 1,000 different sweat bee species in Canada and the U.S.

Swampscott Conservancy You’re probably familiar with European or western honeybees (Apis mellifera) given that the popularity of keeping them is on the rise in suburban and even urban gardens. As the ...

Sweat bees are dark-coloured and most are just half a centimetre long. "I imagine most people have probably seen them, but they may not have recognized them as bees," researcher Jason Gibbs said.

“Stingless bees are found in tropical areas of the world and can live in large colonies,” Sheffield says. “Though they do not sting, they do bite, and unlike the sweat bees, stingless bees will ...

Bees evolved from wasps 100 million years ago. Today there are more than 19,000 species. Their variety is fantastic. There are sweat bees, cuckoo bees, masked bees, broad-tongued Australians and ...

The bees, commonly known as sweat bees, come from the large bee family of Halictidae and are commonly found in North America. As the Canadian Wildlife Federation notes, sweat bees can be ...

In the 100% humidity of the Congo rainforest, in the remotest part of one of the least populated countries in Africa, my companions and I are the only life for salt-greedy sweat bees to hone in on.