As they collected pollen to eat, these bees pollinated everything from silverswords to naupaka. Today, the Hawaiian yellow-faced bee populations are in decline and likely to become endangered ...

Female bees lack the yellow faces that lead to the common name of the yellow-faced bees. Once common, many of these bees are now on the endangered species list. SHELDON PLENTOVICH photo Somewhere ...

This would be the first native, solitary bee in the continental United States to be protected under the Act. Although it once thrived across much of the Mojave Desert, the quarter-inch-long, ...