Bees (family: Apidae) are important ecologically and economically as primary pollinators of many natural and agricultural systems. Given current concerns about declining numbers of bees, many ...

The honey bee (Apis mellifera, Linnaeus, 1758) plays a crucial role as a pollinator in agriculture for a wide range of crops and in the natural environment. Nevertheless, they are exposed to multiple ...

Zoe Short shows off a monarch butterfly she named Russell in front of UW’s Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center pollinator garden. Short, a recent UW graduate from Douglas, was the lead author of a ...

Much of the once-dominant longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) ecosystem has been lost from the Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States and only a few scattered remnants of primary forest ...