Mining bees are a type of solitary bee that 'mines' into the ground to make their nest chambers. Examples include ashy mining ...

So, what do bluebirds eat? This doughty little bird with its sweet song is a type of thrush and a member of the Sialia genus.

Almost 90% of wild plants and 75% of leading global crops depend on animal pollination. One out of every three mouthfuls of our food depends on pollinators such as bees. Crops that depend on ...

I was reading a children's book about insects to my daughter, and it said that bees see colors differently than humans do. My daughter immediately asked, in short succession: "What colors do they see?

They evolved from wasps about 125 million years ago at the same time as flowering plants. Bees are vegetarian and eat flower nectar and pollen. All wasps belong to the suborder Apocrita, and the most ...

If these little insects that help provide so much of the food we eat were to vanish, what would we do without them? An illustration of what all honey bees, and a colony of honey bees, do for us in ...

In the episode of Doctor Who called ‘The Stolen Earth’, the Doctor deduced that the bees ... that eat those plants and so for the whole ecosystem.” But there are things we can do to help.

CBC’s Edmonton AM sat down with Rachel Pizante, a PhD student in conservation biology at the University of Alberta. She led a ...

It's a little known fact that economists love bees - or at least, the idea of bees. The Royal Economic Society's logo is a honeybee. The Fable Of The Bees, published in 1732, uses honeybees as a ...

"But these bees don't actually eat the wood as food," says Emma Grace Crumbley, an entomologist with Mosquito Squad. "Just like other bees, carpenter bees forage for pollen and plant nectar, and serve ...

Narrator: Bees might not be your favorite insects out ... because there are a lot of plants that we do eat and we depend on that are wind-pollinated, including, for example, wheats.

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