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Solved! Why Do We Need Bees?

Q: I recently moved and am ready to start focusing on my garden. A friend told me that I should plant flowers that attract bees, but I’m not sure I want these insects around my home. Why are bees ...
NOLA.com

Animal of the Month: Audubon Insectarium highlights the importance of bees and how to encourage pollinators

This includes different types of bees as well as flies and butterflies, all of which are pollinators. If these populations continue to decline in number, that means you don’t have as many new plants ...
WFAE

Bees can learn, remember, think and make decisions – here’s a look at how they navigate the world

A bumblebee lands on the flowers of a white sloe bush. Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty Images Stephen Buchmann, University of Arizona As trees and flowers blossom in spring, bees emerge from ...
WOOD-TV

Key to saving bees? Knowing the difference between bees, wasps

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Bees: Love them or hate them, they play an important role in our global ecosystem, in our economy and even in our backyards. But do they deserve the bad wrap they receive ...
Lawrence Journal-World

New federal grant aims to make KU’s world-leading collection of bees more accessible to researchers, public

A blue carpenter bee specimen from KU's world-leading collection of bees is shown. The University of Kansas has won a federal grant to help its bee collection — the largest in the world — spread far ...
The Conversation

Wild bees are under threat from domestic bees, invasive species, pathogens and climate change — but we can help

Sebastian Irazuzta received funding from McMaster University, The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, and NSERC. Noah Stegman received funding from McMaster University and NSERC. Susan A. Dudley receives ...