Climate change is coming for our most critical pollinators. Scientists are figuring out if our bees can handle the heat.
Tag: native bees
Weather
How to Help Bees When It’s Hot Out
Hot weather can be tough on our local wildlife, including wild bees. But you can help by making a safe “watering hole” for tiny pollinators.
Wildlife
San Francisco’s Native Bees Do the Job Just Fine
San Francisco gardeners should take heart. There’s enough native bees around to do your pollinating.
Gardening, Wildlife
Saying “Yes” to Habitat Gardens
Award-winning master gardener Kate Frey believes gardens should be for more than just show.
Point Reyes Walkabout, Trails, Wildlife
Bees, Coyotes, and More at Point Reyes: Laguna Ranch Loop
Jules Evens continues his quest to hike every trail at Point Reyes National Seashore. Here, he traces a route where he once encountered a mountain lion. This time, the wildlife is a bit tamer, but no less beautiful: red-legged frogs, native bees, wildflowers, and a coyote howl to finish it off.
Spring Issue 2009
In the Key of Bee
Gordon Frankie has an obsession, and he hopes it’s contagious: In gardens around the Bay Area, dozens of species of native bees, many nothing like the more familiar but nonnative honeybee, await your discovery, and your help.
Spring Issue 2009
Mulch Madness
Google “mulch” and you’ll find university websites from Alaska to Florida touting mulch as one of the most environmentally friendly and effective tools for improving a backyard garden. But that mulch keeps native bees from digging their nests…
Gardening, Wildlife
Backyard Boarding House
Leafcutters, diggers, carpenters, and masons… At first glance that may look like a directory for building contractors. Add the miners, cuckoos, and sweats and what you have isn’t a list of tool-bag clad builders, but some of the 1,600 known species of native bees in California. Here’s how you can make them at home in your garden.
Gardening
Bees, Butterflies, and Other Insect Pollinators
Insects have fascinating lives and behaviors most of us never notice. But if you spend even 15 minutes watching bees or butterflies, you’re sure to be drawn into their worlds and want to know more about them. Here are some … Read more
Fall Issue 2007
Are native bees suffering the same colony collapse disorder as honeybees?
Q: Are native bees suffering the same “colony collapse disorder” as honeybees? [Linda, San Ramon] A: Colony collapse disorder, or CCD, has gotten a lot of media attention, and with good reason. The western honeybee (Apis mellifera) is native to … Read more
