Somewhere between 400,000 and 700,000 thousand years ago — about the time Haleakala was forming — a tiny bee arrived in the Hawaiian Islands. This bee was about the size of a grain of rice and ...

The adage “The more you look, the more you see” is the basis for the “Pollinators in Paradise” project, a new approach to researching Hawaii’s most important native pollinators: the yellow-faced bees.

The endangered Hawaiian yellow-faced bee is being threatened by invasive ants, researchers with the state Division of Forestry and Wildlife and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Pacific Islands ...

You might be thinking, “Oh, that’s in Hawaii,” but the fact that any bees would end up becoming critically endangered is something all of us should be alarmed over. On Friday, the U.S. Fish and ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service added 49 species of plants and animals to the endangered species list on Friday, all native to Hawaii. Unlike the dozens of similar releases the FWS publishes each ...

Bee plants in Colorado and on the Colorado plateau grow two to five feet tall, with many big, showy flowers. Rocky Mountain bee plant, Cleome serrulata, has magenta flowers and they occur frequently ...