Gardens buzz with life, especially when they host flowers that attract bees. These industrious pollinators are drawn to ...

Many plants are bee-friendly and will attract this vital insect when in full bloom. The entries here are appealing to bees for different reasons, but each one can make a difference. Image Credit ...

Butterflies and bees are important garden visitors — they’re both pollinators, which means they help plants reproduce. When ...

Here are five of the best flowers to plant no matter what size ... so you can pick the best kind to attract bees – we love the ‘Big Blue’, which, as the name suggests, is an intense ...

"However, because these traits are co-evolved in flowers, it can also be very challenging to pinpoint which traits are the ones attracting which bees." For the study, the researchers worked with ...

My new research shows that bees, in particular, don’t really care about the landscape surrounding flower gardens. They seem to zero in on the particular types of flowers they like, no matter ...

But bees and other pollinators—which can ... which Todesco likens to sweating—which could keep the flowers from overheating. The team concluded that UV patterns have a dual role—attracting pollinators ...

Some flowers go to extraordinary lengths to attract pollinators. Bee orchids mimic the shape and scent of bees in order to lure them into ‘pseudocopulation’, where the male insect attempts to mate ...

Almost 90% of wild plants and 75% of leading global crops depend on animal pollination. One out of every three mouthfuls of our food depends on pollinators such as bees. Crops that depend on ...

Bird Budd Inc., a company that brought us the smart bird feeder a couple of years ago, has now launched Petal, a circular and biomorphic camera that acts like a flower to attract bees and bugs ...