Plants & Pollination
Best Wildflowers for Honeybees
In recent years, the role of wildflowers in feeding honeybees has been widely misunderstood.
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Establishing a Successful Bee Garden
The right flowers, fruit, and vegetables in your garden will attract some of your own bees, as well as welcoming other visitors such as the bumblebee and solitary bee species.
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Garden Plan for Pollinators
Design choices, plant selections, and maintenance practices can make a huge difference in creating your own healthy ecosystem.
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How to Harvest Bee Pollen
Many a beekeeper will eventually come to wonder how to harvest bee pollen, and when, and even if they should. What do you need to know first?
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Why We Need to Protect Native Pollinator Habitat
Regardless of whether we live a rural lifestyle, an urban one, or something in between, our existence and continuance of the world as we know it is dependent on an ecosystem of small insect pollinators and native pollinator habitat that most people rarely notice.
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How to Support Your Solitary Bee Population
There are more than 20,000 species of solitary bees. Native to nearly every corner of the globe, they are adapted to a vast diversity of climates and habitats.
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Raising Mason Bees: Do’s and Don’ts
Raising mason bees is as simple as placing suitable housing where it will be discovered by bees living in your area. The results are worth the wait!
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Should You Feed Native Bees?
Should you feed native bees? Josh Vaisman explains the whys and why nots.
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Pollinator Week: A History
Pollinator Week — recognized internationally, observed the third week of June in the US — celebrates each and every pollinator on the planet.
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The Copycat Bee
Common throughout the mid to southeastern United States, the carpenter-mimic bee (or copycat bee) has earned its name.
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