Kelly Swafford will be the first to tell you he has a pretty sweet job. For nearly 20 years, he has been keeping hives of bees, harvesting honey and selling the buzzy little insects to other ...

Two regional spelling bees were held on Tuesday, Feb. 4, at the Wood Lake Meeting Center in. With 29 districts from throughout Southeast Minnesota in the regional competitions, 48 students ...

In the US and Canada alone, there are nearly 4,000 known species of native bees—the continent’s most effective pollinators ... WWF is developing opportunities to collaborate with farm advisors and ...

Being social means many individuals share one nest. Solitary wasps and bees nest alone. This article focuses on the habits of social wasps and bees. People mistakenly call all stinging insects "bees." ...

Instead, the Ellisons are getting out of store-buying meat from “factory farms” and are maintaining their small regenerative farm.

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Among those bees are squash bees, mason bees and bumblebees. Aside from bees, the state is home to other pollinators like butterflies, moths, flies, hummingbirds and beetles, according to DEEP.

By exposing bumble bees to a field-realistic dose of clothianidin, the scientists found dramatic differences in gene activity across body tissues—82% of gene activity changes were tissue-specific.