Six years ago, Brooklyn beekeeper Cerise Mayo opened her hive and was startled to see red: Her bees were making honey the color of a cherry. As it turns out, the critters had found their way into a ...

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 ...

Urban beekeeping is a growing trend, but some scientists have worried bees in the city might turn to processed sugars for food. N.C. State researcher Clint Penick was inspired to study urban bee diets ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. It’s springtime in California, and bees are emerging to feast on flowering fields—acres ...

Researchers have shown that feeding bumble bees caffeine helps them better remember the smell of a specific flower with nectar inside. While previous studies have shown that bees like caffeine and ...

We protect what we love. For Micki Fine, that's bees. Why bees? "I saw a PBS documentary on colony collapse disorder," the psychotherapist says. "I was really afraid and thought I just had to do ...

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 ...

Many cities are introducing green areas to protect their fauna. Amongst such measures are flower strips, which provide support to flower-visiting insects, insect- and seed-eating birds. According to ...

Bees can learn to recognize human faces, or at least face-like patterns, a new study suggests. Rather than specifically recognizing people, these nectar-feeding creatures view us as "strange flowers," ...