Bee colony collapse viruses spreading to bumblebees. By Geoffrey Mohan . Feb. 19, 2014 10:15 AM PT . ... “Honeybees are absolutely important, but so are wild bees. ...

The wild bee population study, the first of its kind at a national scale, comes in response to a White House effort last year aimed at addressing honey bee colony collapses.

Born to bee wild: How feral ... with them from northern Europe to the Jamestown colony. It remained the only honeybee in the U. S. until the introduction of the Italian honeybee, ...

Honey bees may play a role in increasing virus levels in wild bumble bees each spring, ... "Our data suggests that healthy wild bee communities require healthy honey bee colony management," she said.

In this image from "Wild Honey Bees," worker bees in Germany load up with water that they'll use to cool their colony’s nest on a hot day. (Ingo Arndt Photography/Reprinted by permission of ...

In recent years, wild bees have suffered horrendous losses, down 90 percent by some estimates. The chief cause is considered to be lack of natural food sources such as local flowers and weeds.

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Most people go to public gardens to enjoy the flowers. Julianna Tuell is there to see wild bees. "There are a lot of little ones," says Tuell, leaning toward the flat ...

Creeping buttercups have invaded my property and I don’t use any pesticides. I have a wild bee colony in a cedar tree at the back of my small acreage and lots of bumblebees visit my various gardens.

A bee colony contains roughly 60,000 honey bees. A colony is typically made up of two hive boxes, ... 80 are pollinated by honey bees. There aren’t many wild and native pollinators left.

A crossbreed of African and European honeybees, Africanized honeybees are known for their "more defensive behavior," ...