As winter ends and the weather begins to warm, the buzzing of bees will increase. Instead of focusing on the well-known European honeybees, which live in large hives, this article is about our native ...

Lucifer is Latin for "light-bringer," and the name is also a play on its devil-like appearance, Curtin University said in a news release.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox ...

Almost 90% of wild plants and 75% of leading global crops depend on animal pollination. One out of every three mouthfuls of our food depends on pollinators such as bees. Crops that depend on ...

Flowers offer all sorts of cues to their pollinators—colors, patterns, shapes, and scents all help plants communicate with butterflies, bats, birds, and bees. But recent research suggests that another ...

Plant a field of sunflowers, and watch them grow. All summer you will see something amazing. In the morning, all the sunflowers will face east in the direction of the rising sun. As the sun moves, so ...

We're often tempted to add flowers to our gardens to attract bees and promote biodiversity. But what if this is sometimes a bad idea? To decorate green spaces, most cities and amateur gardeners rely ...

To the casual observer, it's nothing more than an abandoned golf course. But the land, along with other weedy, minimally ...

Living on a mountain is hard for bees and flowers. It's cold. There's extreme weather. And new research has found it's getting even harder for both flowers and bees to make a living in alpine ...

Ecologists who study flowering plants have long believed that flowers evolved with particular sets of characteristics to attract specific pollinators. But a recent article suggests that flowers ...

When bumble bees fight invasive Argentine ants for food, bees may win an individual skirmish but end up with less to feed the ...

A bumblebee visits a flower, drawn in by the bright colours, the patterns on the petals, and the aromatic promise of sweet nectar. But there’s more to pollination than sight and smell. There is also ...