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 ...

As the spring season approaches full bloom, legions of bees are arriving in full force to speed the process along. If you've ever wondered whether the one bee that seems to be chasing you around is ...

Bees have excellent eyesight, but there's one color they can't detect at all - an important fact to know when you're planning ...

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 ...

Rebuilding the world's shrinking bee population will be a multi-level effort. Legislators and citizens are already doing what they can to conserve the pollinators, by planting the right things and ...

Slight electric fields that form around flowers may lure pollinators much as floral colors and fragrances do. In lab setups, bumblebees learned to distinguish fake flowers by their electrical fields, ...

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 ...