Charles Darwin proposed a simple explanation. He believed bees chose the same flowers again and again because switching would ...

These bees can mostly be found in the eastern US and like other bumble bees, this type of bee helps pollinate different flowers and crops. 'There are 49 species of bumble bee in the US ...

shares her new research showing that bees, in particular, don't really care about the landscape surrounding flower gardens. They seem to zero in on the particular types of flowers they like ...

Mark Ruibal of Ruibal's and Dione Lineberry of Blue Ribbon Lady Landscaping share their tips for attracting pollinators to ...

Lots of plants rely on insects like bees to reproduce. To make a seed, a flower needs to be pollinated. Pollen from one flower needs to travel to another. Bees are very important for carrying the ...

To test these predictions, researchers used two types of artificial flowers and examined how bumble bees' flower constancy changed with the levels of spatial mixture and color difference.

As predicted, when the two flower types were more mixed and their flower colors were more similar, bees significantly decreased flower constancy. But when the same flower types were present in ...

Flowers are an essential source of food for birds and insects, including the dozens upon dozens of species of wild bees found in most ... of the corolla—the tube-like structure formed by a ...

Regarding conservation, the number one threat to pollinators (like all plants and animals at risk of extinction ... other common species are around 1.5 centimeters. Include some metallic bees. Body ...