Nature’s most dazzling colors can be strangely rare. Walk through a park or forest and you see greens, yellows and reds that feel soft to the eye. Most of those tones are matte. Only now and then do ...

Thanks to their unique visual spectrum, bees prefer certain colors – so these are the flowers you'll want to plant in your garden this spring ...

Animals such as the orchid mantis mimic the look of flowers, and the corpse flower emits a smell like rotting meat to attract insects, but these beetles add a new strategy to the mimicry playbook, ...

Flowers pollinated by honeybees make fewer and lower-quality seeds than flowers visited by other pollinators. That could be because honeybees spend more time buzzing between flowers of the same plant ...

Unlike human vision, which prioritizes high resolution and fine detail, honeybee vision is low resolution but highly specialized for detecting the visual signals that matter most for survival—flowers.

As the number of bees and other pollinators falls, field pansies are adapting by fertilizing their own seeds, a new study found. By Carl Zimmer Every spring, trillions of flowers mate with the help of ...

It has been discovered that the mere buzzing sound of a bee's wingbeats can induce plants to increase their nectar production. A team led by Professor Francesca Barbero of the Department of Zoology at ...

A new study has identified the bee's knees of bumble bee dietary options in Ohio and the Upper Midwest. By viewing almost 23,000 bumble bee-flower interactions over two years, researchers found that ...

Just like people confronted with a sea of options at the grocery store, bees foraging in meadows encounter many different flowers at once. They must decide which ones to visit for food, but it isn't ...

Sure, cows are important. But next time you eat ice cream, thank a bee. Without them, there would be no cones, milkshakes or sundaes. Every summer, alfalfa leafcutting bees pollinate alfalfa in an ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...

The accusations you may have heard about nonnative honey bees aren’t backed by evidence. Entomologists explain that there are plenty of ways bees make the world a better place.