What To Do If You Find A Ground Bee Nest In Your Yard

It may be tempting to remove a ground bee nest from your outdoor space, but it's wise to understand how their presence ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Found 5.6 Million Burrowing Bees Beneath a Cemetery in New York. The Group Is One of the Largest on Record

Bees are commonly imagined as insects that live in hives hanging from trees. In reality, however, about 70 percent of native bees build their nests in the ground. And, according to new research, some ...
ABC Kcrg 9

Endangered species of bee found in Iowa City yard, scientists now studying nest

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - A Johnson County Conservation staff member says they discovered an endangered species of bee in a small hole in the ground in their Iowa City yard in August. Now scientists ...
The Cornell Daily Sun

The GNBee Lab Accumulates Over 5,000 Observations to Contribute to Wild Bee Preservation

The Ground Nesting Bees project has surpassed 5,000 observations, a laudable milestone for the citizen science project. 385 species of bees have been observed and 2,164 people have submitted their ...

A Cornell lab tech wanted free parking. She found the world’s biggest cluster of ground bees

Ithaca, N.Y. — Rachel Fordyce just wanted to park for free. What the Cornell University lab technician stumbled upon instead ...
RTÉ Ireland

World Bee Day: 5 bees to identify this summer

In the run-up to World Bee Day (20 May), which aims to raise awareness of the importance of pollinators for food security, ...