"Planting a wide range of flowers and plants in your garden is beneficial for UK pollinators, as it provides them with a diverse diet. If you maintain a vegetable garden, interspersing it with various ...

Bees play an essential role in sustaining healthy ecosystems and ensuring food security - find out how you can help keep them alive in your garden ...

As soon as the first ever flowers unfurled from their buds in the early Cretaceous period, they were visited by pollinators.

These container-garden flowers and plants are popular with a wide range of bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other ...

Mining bees are solitary insects that sometimes nest in large aggregations." To get started on planting your bee-friendly garden, aim for a diverse range of flowering plants, including native ...

Curiously, it’s male bees you’ll most often find sleeping in flowers. Yet, why are they passed out like this? Plus, why do they need to sleep in flowers if they have hives and nests they could ...

Bees play a key role in the ecosystem and food supply, feeding on nectar and pollen from flowers, the U.S. Forest Service said. The pollinators have been in decline amid factors like climate ...

Bees actively adjust flower choice based on color and distance: Updating 'flower constancy' beyond Darwin's theory Date: April 3, 2025 Source: University of Tsukuba Summary: Since Darwin's time ...

As predicted, when the two flower types were more mixed and their flower colors were more similar, bees significantly decreased flower constancy. But when the same flower types were present in ...