For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter of survival – and new research shows how flowers do it is more intriguing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study of bee behavior helps explain why glossy petals are scarce in nature. Shiny “flowers” stand out like tiny lighthouses ...

If you’re a bee, your life (and the lives of 50,000 sisters in the hive) depends on navigation. Particularly, on your ability to find a jackpot of flowers and make your way back. The main tool for ...

Can honeybees recognize the beekeepers face? New research by Dr. Dyer from the Monash University in Australia, published in the science journal “PloS ONE”, indicates that bees can learn to recognize ...

If you’ve ever watched a garden on a warm day and noticed that bees seem to spend a disproportionate amount […] ...