Wild bumblebees are born with the ability to remove pollen from nectarless flowers using high-frequency vibrations, researchers have found. This study is the first to show that the ability to vibrate ...

‘All the flowers in the field were made to please the bees.” Or, at least, so said that great 20th-century philosopher Freddie Garrity, in Freddie and the Dreamers’ 1963 hit You Were Made For Me.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Clarence: Pollen is a fine, microscopic powdery substance, typically yellow, that is the male part of a ...

Honeybees collect a surprising amount of pollen from plants like goldenrod, poison ivy, clover and ragweed — “Things that most people would consider weeds,” said Kimberly Stoner, the senior author of ...

When we think of fossils, we tend to imagine the strong, sturdy bones of dinosaurs and the hard, calcified shells of ammonites. Most of us do not picture the delicately preserved petals of an ancient ...

At a time when the need to understand how declining bee populations influence the environment has never been more urgent, University of Stirling scientists have discovered that wild bumblebees are ...