For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter ...

Nature’s most dazzling colors can be strangely rare. Walk through a park or forest and you see greens, yellows and reds that ...

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 ...

Flower garden with a variety of colors, one with a bee on it - Marina Lohrbach/Getty Images As the bee population continues to decline at an alarming rate, it's important to do what we can to help ...

More flowers lead to more pathogen spread between bee species. In A Nutshell Scientists found that sites with more flower ...

A recent study shows that viruses in wild bees are closely linked to the flowers they visit and the availability of floral ...

Viruses spread from honey bees to wild bees through shared flowers, threatening pollination and plant communities.

When we think of bee nests, we often think of a giant hive, buzzing with social activity, worker bees and honey. But scientists recently discovered a rare, solitary type of bee that makes tiny nests ...

Adrian Dyer receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Jair Garcia does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from ...

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 ...

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 ...