Bees are attracted to nectar containing common pesticides, scientists at Newcastle University and Trinity College Dublin have discovered. Previous studies suggested exposure of this kind can affect ...

Once bees develop a taste for caffeine, they’ll do just about anything to get a fix. “The effect of caffeine is akin to drugging, where the honey bees are tricked into valuing the forage as a higher ...

The late-summer bloom of heather in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland coats the range in lovely purple flowers. Beekeepers ...

Honey bees carrying nectar have the remarkable ability to adjust their flight behavior to avoid overheating when air temperatures increase, according to research led by a University of Wyoming ...

Bees that have been exposed to nicotine make very bad decisions that are not in their own self-interest, according to new research. Nicotine is produced naturally by some plants that use insect ...

Sulai honey, also called Acacia honey, is produced by bees (Apis mellifera) fed on flowers of plectranthus rugosus, called Sulai in local parlance in Ramban district alone. The bees forage on the ...

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 ...

Humans love flowers because of their beautiful colors, intriguing shapes, and lovely fragrance. From the plant’s perspective, however, these qualities are more about function than aesthetics. Plants ...

Neonicotinoids are common pesticides that target the same mechanisms in insect brains that are affected by nicotine in our brains. And according to a new field experiment, neonicotinoids are harmful ...