There was once a bumble bee from the Lake.

The giants among us. Bumble bees are a charismatic group considered by some to be the “pandas of the bee world”. Bumble bees belong to the genus Bombus, with around 260 different described species. …

Bombus dahlbomii is the official (scientific) name of our moscardon. The entomologist Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville coined this name in 1835, dedicating the specific epithet to the Swedish scientist Anders Gustaf Dahlbom.

Halloween is almost here and I wanted to share this little history, in Latin America, we have the cuco, it is our version of the boogie man, if you are not a good kid or if you don’t behave the boogie man will come for you… this always scared the…

Chapter 3. Do you know how a bee smells? Do you know how a bee smells? This is a weird question, but do you know? When I am collecting bees I smell this lemony aroma. This scent goes through the net, it is strong. …

Living in a Condo Most people think bees live in hives with a queen, workers, and drones, but only a small percentage of all bee species live that way. Most bees are solitary. That means one “bee mom” does all the work of building the nest, collecting nectar and pollen…

“Winter turns to spring Famine turns to feast Nature points the way Nothing left to say Beauty and the Beast” From our series “Friends of the Valdivian Rain Forest”, today, we bring “The Beauty and the Beast”, reminiscent of the classic French tale “La Belle et la Bête”, where our…

Bees are very important pollinators. They pollinate commercial crops (most of our food) and plants in the wild (including your national parks, preserves, prairies, forests, deserts, etc) however, we know very little about them. …