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Flower strips, seed mixtures, and wild by design. We want to help bees and other vital pollinators, which are in decline all ...
As the spring season approaches full bloom, legions of bees are arriving in full force to speed the process along. If you've ever wondered whether the one bee that seems to be chasing you around ...
When bees collect nectar, how do they hold onto the flower? Scientists have s now shown that it is down to small cone-shaped cells on the petals that act like Velcro on the bees' feet.
Robotic bees seem like a fairly simple proposition; fly the robot around to flowers, collect pollen, transfer pollen, done. Just one problem: Some plants don't give it up that easily.
Bees and flowers communicate in colors, scents and shapes. Now scientists have discovered that bumblebees can also sense flowers' electric fields. This sixth sense helps them remember and ...
City Bees Feed on Flowers, Not Junk Food. Published May 19, 2016 at 1:00 PM EDT Updated Jun 14, 2016 at 11:15 AM EDT. Urban bees feed entirely on flowers when given the chance and eschew human food.
Bees can sense a flower’s electric field—unless fertilizer messes with the buzz. Bumblebees are really good at picking up on cues from flowers, even electrical signals.
The team trained bees to discriminate between two e-flowers that came in very slightly different shades of green. They managed it, but it took them 35 visits to reach an accuracy of 80 percent.
Bees actively adjust flower choice based on color and distance: Updating 'flower constancy' beyond Darwin's theory Date: April 3, 2025 Source: University of Tsukuba ...