Scientists estimate there are about 4,000 species of native bees in the U.S.—and they’re both cooler and ecologically more ...

Danielle Hudson, a graduate student in the biology department, is working on a study surrounding the behavior of ground-nesting bees. Hudson explains, “So, we’re studying solitary ground ...

Where are they right now? Veit: So most of our bees are ground-nesting bees, so they’re in the ground. Most of them overwinter in what we call a pre-pupal stage, so bees, like beetles and ...

As temperatures rise, native ground-nesting bees are among the first to emerge. For most of my life, I confess that I was terrified of bees. Growing up in Florida, where stinging insects are ...

The species she came across belongs to the genus Diadasia, which are considered solitary bees. This means that, unlike honeybees for example, they do not build hives and live as a collective. Instead, ...