Butterflies and bees are important garden visitors — they’re both pollinators, which means they help plants reproduce. When ...

a lack of biodiverse flowers for the bees to choose from. Bees make honey by sipping the nectar of flowers and using an enzyme to transform that nectar into the thick, sweet substance we know and ...

Researchers put a sensor at the entrance of beehives to register each time the pollinators entered or exited, and how long ...

From December to February, mustard fields across Bangladesh become buzzing ecosystems as bees, both wild and domesticated, ...

Shorter, wider flowers may transmit more parasites to bees Jun 13, 2022 Providing blooms all season long may be key to attracting pollinators, no matter what landscape is near your garden ...

They need bees to spread their pollen and help make new seeds. Bees love nectar so flowers offer up their nectar as a reward for visiting them. And they’ve got manyways of showing what’s on offer.

My new research shows 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, no matter ...

While foraging for nectar and pollen, bees inadvertently transfer pollen from the male to the female components of flowers. Each year, bees pollinate 95 crops worth an estimated $10 billion in the ...

A biologist explains what to focus on if you’re designing a garden with pollinators in mind − and what you don’t need to worry about.

There are over 250 species of bee in the UK, of which 178 species have been recorded in Wales. The majority of these are solitary bees, but some, like the better-known bumblebees and honeybee, are ...

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 ...