If the population of pollinators starts declining, which it already is, humans will have no flowers or food to rely on for ...

Want to know the core plants you can grow to add beauty while helping beneficial garden friends? Discover the best nectar-producing plants for honey bees and other pollinators ...

A field of flowers may seem innocuous -- but for the birds and bees that depend on it for sustenance, that floral landscape can be a battlefield mined with predators and competitors. The more ...

There’s an abundance of information available about how to attract hummingbirds to your yard and feeders, but information about how to keep bees away from hummingbird feeders tends to be scarce. The ...

Bees are essential to the health of the Earth’s ecosystems, but the populations of many species are dwindling. These ...

Several kinds of bees can make honey, although domestic honeybees are the most famous and best-studied. They make honey from flower nectar, storing it in waxy cells in a comb in the hive. Honey is ...

Non-native honeybees are so effective at pollinating, they pose a significant threat to native California bees and other ...

Bees are attracted to nectar containing common pesticides, scientists have discovered. This could increase their chances of exposure to high levels of pesticides.

Nectar fuels bees’ flight and warms them, allowing them to rev up their thoracic flight motors preflight and enabling a queen bumblebee to incubate her brood just like a mother hen.

With bright red and yellow signage, sugar-rich liquid, and no petals to navigate, they are the perfect feeding stop for bees.

According to newly published research from Israel, humans aren’t the only ones addicted to nicotine and caffeine – so, possibly, are bees. A study conducted at the University of Haifa shows that bees ...