March in New England brings the earliest signs of spring. Plants that have been dormant all winter start to wake up and so do ...

Each female builds a nest, collects pollen and nectar and lays eggs without help from other bees. Solitary bees are also ...

Adding a bee hotel to your yard provides nesting spots for vital pollinators. A bee hotel is what it sounds like: a structure ...

On the other hand, solitary bees do it all themselves, with females building and provisioning nests with no assistance. Solitary bees are wildly fascinating and incredibly diverse in their morphology ...

Many solitary bees nest on bare ground. I love mulched garden beds, so this has been a lesson in restraint for me as a gardener who is trying to create habitat. Gardeners should always try to ...