They may not be The Ritz Carlton, The Plaza or even a Holiday Inn, but bee hotels house important guests. Native bees are among the many different welcome and necessary pollinators in landscapes.

Birdhouse-style “bee hotels” are coming to seven New York City public plazas to help at-risk native pollinators thrive — but one expert says they’re not going to fly in the concrete jungle. The city’s ...

A patchwork of bamboo and paper tubes, with diameters no bigger than a nickel, are stacked artfully inside a 4-by-4 wooden frame near the edge of a public hiking trail in Lawrence, Kansas. Organized ...

GREENPOINT — Unseen by hundreds of thousands of motorists who pass overhead every week, families, friends and committed volunteers gathered under the Kosciuszko Bridge to refurbish a park. At Under ...

DEAR JOAN: I’ve done a lot with my backyard to make it much more pollinator- and hummingbird-friendly. I’m planning to make it an even better habitat for native bees by including more native plants ...

Brooklyn’s pedestrian plazas will be quite literally buzzing with activity this spring as the city expands The Pollinator Port Project, a program to offer refuge to local bees and other pollinators.

Spring has arrived, and so has the frenzy to help pollinators thrive. Homeowners everywhere are scrambling to “save the bees” with whatever cheap fix seems convenient: a bag of wildflower seeds, a ...

At-risk native bees will soon have new potential homes in the city thanks to the Pollinator Port Project, an initiative led by the city Department of Transportation in collaboration with the ...