Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As winter ends and the weather begins to warm, the buzzing of bees will increase. Instead of focusing on the well-known European ...

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 ...

In order to reproduce, most flowering plants rely on animals to move their pollen. In turn, pollinators rely on flowers for food, including both nectar and pollen. If you're a gardener, you might want ...

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 ...

We’re currently dealing with winter conditions, but to warm us up, I thought I’d cover something we observe, but may not fully understand, in spring, summer, and fall: why do bees visit flowers? Much ...

It’s called nectar robbing: Bees get nectar, but don’t pollinate the plants in exchange. With their short tongues, Valley carpenter bees can’t easily drink the nectar from tubular flowers. So they use ...

Bees and other pollinators don't necessarily like the flowers that we do. Fussy double-flowered peonies, vivid petunias, and scentless pelargoniums aren't of much interest to bees. In fact, bees ...

New research conclusively shows that certain physical traits of flowers affect the health of bumble bees by modulating the transmission of a harmful pathogen called Crithidia bombi. In particular, the ...

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 ...