I live in a part of North Berwick that has super sandy soil. We have a small river out back bordered by a floodplain that floods at least a couple of times a year, and is shaded by pines and covered ...

To save money, Rachel Fordyce parked her car for free at Ithaca's East Hill Plaza and walked through East Lawn Cemetery to her job as a technician in an entomology lab on Cornell's campus. One spring ...

A large-scale experiment shows that warmth brings bees and wasps out of hibernation earlier—leaving some of them with poorer starting conditions. This is particularly true for species in cooler ...

Those perfectly round holes in your deck aren't a minor nuisance. They are an open invitation — to next spring's carpenter bee infestation, to moisture and rot, and to a woodpecker problem you didn't ...

Mason bees hibernate in cocoons through the winter and emerge in early spring, pollinating up to 95% of fruit tree and flower blooms. They are easy to host, require no beekeeping skills, and are ideal ...

Bainbridge Island may be more abuzz than usual this spring, as a local apiary company plans to release thousands of native bees on the island next week. Rent Mason Bees, a Bothell-based company that ...