Everyone knows that bees buzz around flowers in their quest for nectar. But scientists have now learned that flowers are buzzing right back -- with electricity. Plants generally have a negative ...

Bees are a crucial part of the global food supply, supporting nearly a third of the global crop production. Aside from food production, bees provide half of the world's fibers, oils, and other raw ...

Hummingbirds and bees are both valuable assets to your garden. These strong pollinators play a vital role in the ecosystem, sustaining plants' natural life cycles by transferring pollen from flower to ...

Flowers can pose a grave danger to bees, a team of researchers has determined. The study is the first to show that not only can bees disperse parasites around the environment but also that flowers are ...

Flowers use colours, some of them invisible to human eyes, to attract bees in order to spread their pollen. But experts have long wondered why they don't use iridescence seen in other parts of nature.

Humans may not be the only ones to mix up old memories. Bumblebees seem to do it, too. Using fake flowers, researchers in London have shown that bumblebees sometimes prefer to visit a flower that ...

Despite their beauty, flowers can pose a grave danger to bees by providing a platform of parasites to visiting bees, a team of researchers has determined. “Flowers are hotspots for parasite spread ...