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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You may also know hoverflies by another name: the corn fly. The little yellow-and-black creatures are pretty much everywhere ...

WILLIAMSPORT, Ohio (AP) — Sweat covers Isaac Barnes’s face under his beekeeper’s veil as he hauls boxes of honeycomb from his ...

Some common solitary bee types are mason bee, carpenter bees, miner bees, and sweat bees. If you want to have the bees come buzzing to your garden, don't throw away your old soup cans — use them ...

The genus Agapostemon is full of bright blue or green, metallic-looking bees that are classified as “sweat bees,” even though, unlike their relatives, they are not attracted to human sweat.

Iridescent sweat bees, hairy-faced mining bees, tiny Perdita minima the size of a gnat. Thanks to swarms of apiary enthusiasts, native species are finally getting the buzz they deserve By Susan ...