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Learn how to put mason bees to work, pollinating your garden.

Planting pollen- and nectar-rich flowers is a very important way to help counter the decline in pollinator populations. Most bees are attracted to flowers for their pollen as well as their nectar.

Orchard mason bees are small bees native to North America and are very good pollinators for flowers and fruit trees. They visit as many a 1,000 blooms per day.

This garden puts out the welcome mat for honey bees, native bees, and other beneficial insects. While the bees are sipping nectar and collecting pollen, you'll enjoy a beautiful raised bed garden that produces flowers in every season, spring through fall.

How to identify yellow jackets, honeybees, bumblebees and other stinging insects. Techniques for preventing problems.

Five ways gardeners can welcome pollinators; a list of plants that attract butterflies, hummingbirds and beneficial bees.

Often confused with bees, yellow jackets are much more aggressive, and most reported "bee stings" may in fact be yellow jacket stings. Here are some of the most commonly asked questions.