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

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

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

Bees that land on short, wide flowers can fly away with an upset stomach. The parasite (Crithidia bombi) is transmitted when the insects accidentally ingest contaminated bee feces, which “tends to ...

Adrian Dyer receives funding from The Australian Research Council. At a dinner party, or in the schoolyard, the question of favourite colour frequently results in an answer of “blue”. Why is it that ...

Show kids the importance of bee habitats like flower patches. Help provide a safe place for the buzzers—which pollinate an estimated one-third of the food we eat—by building a bee hotel near this ...

SEVIER COUNTY, Tenn. — Dollywood's Flower and Food Festival officially started on Friday, April 21. The celebration of spring boasts over one million blooms and creative cuisine. Throughout the park, ...

March in New England brings the earliest signs of spring. Plants that have been dormant all winter start to wake up and so do insects. As temperatures rise, native ground-nesting bees are among the ...