Bees are incredibly important to our ecosystem. Still, bee colonies have been on the decline for years. Here's how you can ...

Flowers are an essential source of food for birds and insects, including the dozens upon dozens of species of wild bees found ...

Separate experiments with blue flowers yielded similar results. Choosing the hybrid flower suggests that the bees are merging their long-term memories of the flowers, Chittka and Hunt report.

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 ...

Bees and flowers, of course, co-evolved with a long-standing symbiotic relationship: The bees depend on flowers for nectar, which they use to produce honey, and flowers need bees to help pollinate ...

The team trained bees to discriminate between two e-flowers that came in very slightly different shades of green. They managed it, but it took them 35 visits to reach an accuracy of 80 percent.