Q: There are bumble bees living in a box on my potting bench. One of them stung me. I don’t want to kill them, but I’d like to use the potting bench. Is there a safe way (for them and for me!) to move ...

January gives gardeners a breather with time to ponder what we can do in the new year to better our gardening practices. Last year there were fewer bees in my gardens than in past years, which led to ...

Boy Scout Troop 186 member Peter Schoderbek of Readington explains a bee nest box to Hunterdon County Director John King during the Tuesday, Aug. 18 freeholder meeting. (PC Robinson | for NJ.com) ...

While testing how well commercial bumblebees pollinate early spring crops, researchers made a surprising discovery: dead wild bumblebee queens in the hives, an average of 10 per nest box. While ...