One of my favorite pollinators is the bumble bee. Bumble bees are the pollinator world’s cute, cuddly, awkward fellows. Due to their unique physiology that allows bumble bees to fly in conditions when ...

BOSTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) --A new study suggests the flight patterns and maneuverability of bumblebees are altered by the weight of their loads and kind of food they carry. Bees are very capable aviators.

CARBONDALE, IL—Insects such as honeybees and bumble bees are predictable in the way they move among flowers, typically moving directly from one flower to an adjacent cluster of flowers in the same row ...

Bees play a vital role in the pollination of native wildflowers, and UWM researchers are studying how invasive species interfere with seed production in these native plants. Rebecca Flanagan has ...

This statement appeared a few years ago in Popular Science, starting off an article about drag racing. Indeed, the venerable line about scientists having proved that a bumblebee can’t fly appears ...

It is easy to forget that far from being inanimate objects with which animals interact, plants are living, breathing, moving organisms that not only react to their environment, but are themselves ...

Researchers compared the relative success of the bullseye patterns in attracting pollinators using artificial flower discs that mimicked the three different bullseye dimensions. The bees not only ...