If evolutionary biologists are the detectives of the natural world’s past mysteries, then the phylogenic tree is their version of a cork board of crime-scene suspects linked together with red string ...

Plants can maximize their chances of reproduction by taking advantage of how insects move between flowers when they track down nectar, a study suggests. Plants can maximize their chances of ...

Living on a mountain is hard for bees and flowers. It's cold. There's extreme weather. And new research has found it's getting even harder for both flowers and bees to make a living in alpine ...

Bumblebees aren’t merely bumbling around our gardens. They’re actively assessing the plants, determining which flowers have the most nectar and pollen, and leaving behind scent marks that tell them ...

In a novel test of insect intel, researchers observed that bumblebees, which had spied on a worker bee from another colony feasting on unusual flowers, later tended to visit flowers of the same color.

Through pollination and feeding on all parts of plants, insects influence which plants thrive, which struggle, and even ...

Deception is everywhere in nature. Animals and plants routinely cheat, lie and manipulate for their own benefit. One example is mimicry, where one species (the mimic) has evolved to resemble another ...

: one that pollinates: as a : an agent (such as an insect) that pollinates flowers The most common pollinator that most folks will be familiar with is the ever-productive bee. These little miracles ...

Show kids the importance of bee habitats like flower patches. Help provide a safe place for the buzzers—which pollinate an estimated one-third of the food we eat—by building a bee hotel near this ...