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 ...

Wild bees across the west face a growing threat from microscopic parasites. Last week an Oregon researcher visited USU’s ...

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 ...

We’re currently dealing with winter conditions, but to warm us up, I thought I’d cover something we observe, but may not fully understand, in spring, summer, and fall: why do bees visit flowers? Much ...

An adorable photo of bees nestled inside a flower is making the rounds on the internet — and putting a spotlight on these tiny pollinators. Arizona-based nature photographer Joe Neely first published ...

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 ...

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 ...

"I want to keep bees." she said. "What plants should I grow for them here? This simple question is challenging in the desert because it's hard to grow traditional "pollinator" flowers in our climate.

In a novel test of insect intel, researchers observed that bumblebees, which had spied on a worker bee from another colony feasting on unusual flowers, later tended to visit flowers of the same color.

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 ...