Droege heads the United States Geological Survey Bee Lab in Beltsville, Maryland, which supports native bee research, inventory and monitoring projects. He never travels without a net, preferably the ...

and extreme degree of sociality and accompanying behaviors are not traits of the typical bee. Most native bees — besides bumblebees — live solitary lifestyles in holes in trees and loose soil, without ...

Hung’s co-author, John Neff, collected the bee in Texas several years ago before confirming its position on the Andrena genealogy chart ... the importance of native bee conservation and ...

Beekeepers have warned that native Irish honey bees are at grave risk of extinction. This weekend, the Native Irish Honey Bee Society is holding its annual conference in Athlone, Co Westmeath ...