Wild and Native Bees
The following posts are about wild or native bees. What’s the difference?
A native bee is a species that evolved in the area where it is now living. For example, the yellow-faced bumble bee is native to the Pacific Northwest.
A wild bee can be native or not. For example, the alfalfa leafcutting bee is an introduced species, but it has escaped into to the environment and lives wild.
- Once folk heroes, some beekeepers are targeted by ecoterrorists
- Books for Beeple: two fun reads for a winter’s eve
- Cultivating an obsession with bees
- Stalking Bees in the Oregon High Desert
- For healthy bees: Sow seeds, not war
- The native bee quiz returns
- Honey bees are not endangered
- Madia elegans: a crazy pollinator plant
- A bee hotel like you’ve never seen before
- The long path back to nature
- That smarts! 9 fascinating facts about bee stingers
- I’ll have the pollinator plate
- Plays well with others, not
- How does your garden grow?
- A wall of bees
- Let’s save the right bees
- Neonicotinoids: euphoria then death for bees
- Tiny bee loses her pollen
- Mason bee “menage a trois”
- The truth about honey bee decline
- A pair of bees
- Metallic green sweat bees are gorgeous
- A tiny pole dancer
- For the love of bees
- Mason bee on the wing
- Take the pollinator challenge
- It’s time for pollinator habitat
- Bee on red huckleberry
- Plastic debris for brains
- Melissodes sleeping in a thistle
- Homes for the underground majority
- How to make an awesome nesting block
- A face only a mother could love
- Andrena bee
- Chimney bees and their turrets
- Native bee forage: European centaury
- Pollen tramps I have known: Isabella
- Alkali bees face death by highway
- The logistics of pollen
- Lions and tigers and bears, oh my
- Bees that bring a tear to your eye
- Capital Growth yields . . . veggies?
- How to build a native bee block
- Who’s to blame, masons or carpenters?
- Pollinator walls, bee towers, and insect hotels
- Airtime for bees
- Wild pollinators cannot replace honey bees . . .
- Cockerell’s bumble bee makes a comeback
- New bees on the block
- Native bee forage: California lilac
- Mason bee condo filling up
- Wednesday wordphile: scopa
- Bumble bee on vinca
- Can a Texas bluebonnet change its spots?
- Native bee forage: bird’s eyes
- Native bee forage: baby blue eyes
- Wednesday word file: pollination saturation
- Other pollinators: wool carder bee
- Native bee forage: five spot
- Wednesday wordphile: floral fidelity
- Pollen can carry disease to native bees
- Pollinators are not going to change, so we have to
- Is there an environment the EPA actually protects?
- Five favorite plants for the bee garden
- Berry busy berry bee
- Native bees should not be managed like farm animals
- Plant a garden and they will come
- The real estate market heats up