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 Buffalo Bills already knew their opponents for the preseason, thanks to this month’s schedule release. Now, they know the ...

Gardeners love mason bees, the nonaggressive, super-pollinator cousins of the honey bee. It’s easy to find adorable mason bee “hotels” with stacked, bee-sized nesting tubes hanging in yards around Cla ...

I certainly could see some doing that, for sure.” One alternative is to raise mason bees, aka blue orchard bees. They’re native, gentle, stingerless, practically zero maintenance, and ...

digger bees, orchard mason bees, shaggy fuzzyfoot bees, and hornfaced bees. There are more than 3,500 species of solitary bees in North America. These efficient pollinators often do the lion’s share ...

Crown Bees: Mason beekeeping materials, bees and information. If your yard is unsuitable for honeybees but you’d still like to get in on the buzz, consider making room for the orchard mason bee. Small ...

A man who runs a honeybee farm in Stafford County, Virginia, says someone deliberately poisoned his bees, killing about ... business is selling colonies to orchard farmers.

But behold the humble mason bee! Also called the blue orchard bee, it inelegantly "belly flops" onto a flower, Hunter says. It flings pollen everywhere. Covered in pollen, the hairy mason bee then ...