Queen bumble bees can survive fully submerged underwater for over one week, revealing how these pollinators endure spring ...

Paul Hirsch, left, and Oliver Petkovski with the hives in winter. On a 15-degree winter day in north Evanston, Oliver Petkovski stood in a backyard, ...

Eighty-seven people gathered at the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Museum on Saturday to learn how to keep bees.

Don’t just add to the beauty of your yard; give a caterpillar some food to eat. Give a bird a habitat to make a nest and lay eggs.

As bees return and butterflies gather along backyard fences, garden shoppers head to plant centers with more than color in ...

As ancient, hollowed trees disappear in England, one researcher and his team are engineering prosthetic nests to provide an alternative home for endangered birds.

You've been fed a lie. You believe bringing nature back to cities demands impossible, colossal projects. Tearing down everything. But what if the solution was utterly audacious, yet surprisingly small ...

Stingless bees in Peru’s Amazon now hold legal rights, becoming the first insects anywhere the law must actively protect. That decision pulls a small rainforest pollinator into court and turns a ...

Urbanite Theatre's “The Apiary” unfolds in the not-too-distant future. What's an apiary? It's an area for beekeeping. This one's a black comedy — and incandescent science-fiction. Kate Douglas' play ...

Most people think a pollinator garden requires tearing up their entire lawn, hiring a landscaper, or knowing the Latin names ...

Once your yard provides shelter, structure, and natural food sources, feeders can serve as supporting features to attract ...

When it comes to research on habitats for pollinating insects, villages have so far received relatively little attention. The ...