When you think ‘bees,’ you probably think of a neat stack of white hive boxes and the jars of honey on the store shelves. But there’s a lot more to bees than the agricultural staple, the European ...

Many of these so-called “solitary bees,” which include mason bees, leafcutter bees, and carder bees, look more like flying ants than fuzzy yellow bees, but they’re valuable pollinators just the same.

Planting tomatoes in the garden this year? Better hope you have bumblebees too, because tomato flowers need a good shaking to get the pollen out. “What the bumblebee does is grab a tomato flower, ...

Smoke pours over the colony of bees, dousing the air in a sweet, earthy smell of burning wood. Drake Elting holds the smoker ...

Backyard beekeepers have new options for hive boxes, supplies and even clothing, thanks to a brother/sister team raised in Eugene along with a colleague of theirs from Portland. Bespoke Bee Supply, ...

Lauren Anderson, founder of Calm and Confidence, holds a frame full of comb and covered in honey bees. Credit: Sara Reeves As humanity continually seeks to reconnect with the rhythms of nature, one ...