Red means stop. Green means go. But to bees, colors reveal a smorgasbord of available food sources. Neel Joshi, associate professor of entomology for the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, the ...

Unlike human vision, which prioritizes high resolution and fine detail, honeybee vision is low resolution but highly specialized for detecting the visual signals that matter most for survival—flowers.

Attract bees by planting blue, purple, white, golden, and yellow flowers. We'll show you the best flower varieties to get ...

Bees have been dying at an alarming rate in recent years, threatening to take down entire ecosystems with them. According to an article in the BBC, bees "pollinate 70 of the 100 crop species that feed ...

In an experiment, researchers made artificial flowers that mimicked the heat patterns they observed on real flowers, without replicating the corresponding color patterns. They then presented the ...

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 ...