Pesticide Spray Kills Millions of Honey Bees in South Carolina

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/us/south-carolina-pesticide-kills-bees.html?_r=0

Ren Ri Beeswax Artwork

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Sam Droge National Geographic Inventory of Wild Bees

Beekeeper Heidi Herrmann gives her hives an artistic twist

Heidi keeps a variety of hand painted hives in her garden and also is a proponent of 'sun hives' or hand woven egg shaped hives that model the natural form of bee hives.

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National Geographic Feature on Bee Portraits

Carpenter Bee

Crow Bee

The Halictus ligatus favors sunflowers and black-eyed susans

Western Honey Bee

Apis mellifera

Sweat Bee

Augochloropsis sumptuosa is a sand specialist in dune areas

Solitary Bee

Anthophora affabilis uses its tongue to reach into trunmpet-shaped flowers

Common Bumblebee

Bombus griseocollis

Sweat Bee

Augochloropsis metallica

Yellow-faced Bee

This Hylaeus modestus is half the size of a grain of rice. They also ingest and carry their pollen internally

Photography by Sam Droege, USGS

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The Hidden Beauty of Pollination: Louie Shwartzberg

Urban Beekeeping: Beehives in New York City

Keeping Bees in the City Slideshow