If bees had a dating app, these plants would lead the pack. If you’re searching for the best flowers for bees, these blooms ...

Hummingbirds and bees are both valuable assets to your garden. These strong pollinators play a vital role in the ecosystem, sustaining plants' natural life cycles by transferring pollen from flower to ...

These container-garden flowers and plants are popular with a wide range of bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other ...

If you’ve ever watched a bee disappear into a flower and come out covered in pollen like it just rolled in pixie dust, you ...

Bees and flowers are as classic a pair as peanut butter and jelly. But recent research suggests there's a third, much tinier ...

Have you ever wondered why bees or butterflies flock to certain flowers, while completely ignoring others? How do our flying pollinator friends decide what plants to feast upon, and which to flutter ...

Gardeners can prepare for spring 2025 by building a bee-friendly garden. The vital pollinators are in need of conservation as their populations decline. If you have a green thumb, it may be the ...

The sight and sound of a bumblebee or a honey bee buzzing from flower to flower in an alpine meadow or a roadside planting is calming to many, yet it invokes outright panic in others. This happens ...

Colorful flowers, and the insects and birds that fly among their dazzling displays, are a joy of nature. But how did early relationships between flower color and animal pollinators emerge? In a study ...

Dikes are indispensable for bees, especially if they are home to many different plant and flower species. A large census conducted on 157 dikes along rivers in the Netherlands revealed that more and ...

Just like people confronted with a sea of options at the grocery store, bees foraging in meadows encounter many different flowers at once. They must decide which ones to visit for food, but it isn't ...

Claire Therese Hemingway is affiliated with The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institue. Just like people confronted with a sea of options at the grocery store, bees foraging in meadows encounter many ...