Of the more than 20,000 bee species in the world, 70% nest in the ground. And like many of their counterparts that nest above ...

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

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 ...

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, ...