Learn more about bumble bees and help contribute to their conservation with Bumble Bee Nest Quest and the University of Minnesota Extension.

Minnesota author Heather Holm’s latest bee guide has the detail to satisfy even the most engaged citizen scientists and the scope to give beginning gardeners ideas for creating bee habitats. Bees: An Identification and Plant Forage Guide (Pollinator Press, 2017) is a follow up to Holm’s earlier book Pollinators of Native Plants (Pollinator Press, 2014)…

As many as 25% of native bee species in a particular region in the United States are specialists.