For exactly 15 minutes Saturday morning, Fred Bové stared at sunflowers, watching, waiting and hoping an industrious little bee would land on the bright yellow flowers. A couple of honey bees whizzed ...

Interested in where your food comes from? Want to dabble in some home science? Then mark your calendar. The is coming up on Aug. 11. As part of a project to track native bee populations in human ...

Celeste Ets-Hokin stood before a garden of tall flowering plants inside Oakland’s Gardens at Lake Merritt. A bevy of blooms and a series of tiny holes drilled into a nearby tree stump-turned-nest had ...

How many bees does it take to keep our food supply supplying us with food? Gretchen LeBuhn is helping us to find out. The Corte Madera-based professor of ecology at San Francisco State University is ...