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The Prickly Pear Mining bee on a cactus flower, which the species pollinates and eats pollen from.

Colorado Has 900 Bee Species And Only A Few Them Are Black and Yellow

Claire Cleveland

There's a bee species that lives in the White Rocks Nature Preserve between Valmont and Lookout roads northwest of Louisville, and rumor has it that the bee lives only in that area of Colorado.

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Growing on the High Plains: B-List Bees

Skip Mancini

Today's Growing on the High Plains zips through a fast summer full of bees, but I'm fairly certain these aren't your average High Plains pollinator. It…

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Growing on the High Plains: Bee Balm

Skip Mancini

On today's Growing on the High Plains, we'll share a burst of color for your post-Fourth of July blues. I'll spend some time on an elegant flower I've…

Bumblebee queens visit flowers of the alpine skypilot. These large bees have a distinctive flight buzz, the bee version of a cargo plane flying from flower to flower.

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Can The Buzz Of Bees Predict Success For Farmers?

Kristofor Husted

See a bee; hear a buzz. That is what researchers studying the declining bee population are banking on. A new technique based on recording buzzing bees...

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Federal Judge Sides with Pesticide Companies Over Beekepers

A federal judge’s ruling last week is being hailed as a victory for insecticide companies and lamented as a loss for beekeepers and nature advocates,…

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Researchers: Bees Can Be Trained

We’ve seen plenty of troubling news lately about the disappearance of bees in the heartland. So it’s nice to come across a happy bee story this week.As…