Bees arrive at their nest in a tree cavity created and long since abandoned by a black woodpecker. For those first few days of the siege, the honeybees appeared helpless in the face of the hornet ...

Buglife said the nests were at a "high risk" of failing because of the shortage of flowers for the bees to collect nectar and pollen from, and the risk of a return to colder weather. Scientists have ...

Across the country live about 4,000 native bee species — most of which are solitary and nest in the ground — coming in nearly every color of the rainbow and ranging widely in size. The country harbors ...

In the end, piles of sand, bee hotels and honeybee hives won’t help wild bees. Instead, we should be planting more ...

In the spring, she will emerge and begin laying eggs to create a whole new hive in her nest. It may be underground or in a bird box or tree cavity. One native bee that perplexes gardeners is the ...

There are over 250 species of bee in the UK, of which 178 species have been recorded in Wales. The majority of these are solitary bees, but some, like the better-known bumblebees and honeybee, are ...