Honeybees rely heavily on flower patterns – not just colours – when searching for food, new research shows. A team led by the University of Exeter tested bee behaviour and built bee's-eye-view ...

Flowers like hibiscus use an invisible blueprint established very early in petal formation that dictates the size of their bullseyes—a crucial pre-pattern that can significantly impact their ability ...

Complex temperature patterns were surprisingly common; of the 118 species studied, 55% exhibited intra-flower temperature differences greater than the two degrees Celsius difference that bees are ...

Dec. 19 (UPI) --Heat plays an important role in flower-pollinator interactions.According to new research, heat patterns serve as signatures for flowers, advertising their availability to passing bees.

Bees use invisible heat patterns to choose flowers. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 12 / 171219091325.htm. University of Bristol.

Flower patterns improve foraging efficiency in bumblebees by guiding approach flight and landing. Functional Ecology , 2023; DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.14262 Cite This Page : ...

The majority of flowers examined, including many common in gardens, such as poppies and daisies, had complex patterns of heat across their petals, echoing the colourful patterns that we see with our ...

As well as bright colors and subtle scents, flowers possess many invisible ways of attracting their pollinators, and a new study shows that bumblebees may use the humidity of a flower to tell them ...

Design; Why Flower Patterns Are 2022’s Hot Interior Design Trend—and How to Make Them Modern After decades as pattern non grata, floral motifs are budding again in décor—letting the Covid ...