Not every bee lives in a hive and makes honey. But some of those other bees are necessary for a healthy garden. Mason bees, for instance, are small native bees with 150 species found in North America.

Walk With a Friend at Tualatin Hills Nature Park: 9 a.m. first Wednesday and third Sunday of the month. Take a guided walk ...

Various species of bees in the genus Osmia, commonly known as mason bees, are among the types of pollinators that may begin nesting in the Pavilion next spring. Images sourced from USGS Native Bee ...

Solvin explains that he’s motivated to take pictures of wild bees to ‘raise attention for the diversity of insects that so few of us are aware of. Climate change and our unsustainable use of nature ...

For example, the mason bees (~ 130 species in North America) pollinate blueberries, blackberries, and cherries (Figure 5). After a female mason bee mates she finds a tube-like structure and builds ...

Dave Hunter, founder and owner of Crown Bees, and author of Mason Bee Revolution, says, "The objective of solitary bees is to ...

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 ...

That ties its fate to a host species in precipitous decline, demonstrating the ripple effects of the loss of a single species. Blue calamintha bees — These metallic blue mason bees rely entirely on ...