Bees pollinate in the spring because this is when both plants and bees most need each other. After winter, flowering plants ...

Florida's native bees are more efficient pollinators than honeybees and crucial for your garden. Learn how to attract these ...

We’re currently dealing with winter conditions, but to warm us up, I thought I’d cover something we observe, but may not fully understand, in spring, summer, and fall: why do bees visit flowers? Much ...

Hummingbirds and bees are both valuable assets to your garden. These strong pollinators play a vital role in the ecosystem, sustaining plants' natural life cycles by transferring pollen from flower to ...

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 ...

Some years ago, scientists examining wild plants in a western corner of the United States encountered a curiously colourful example of biodiversity. Two species of red Mimulus (monkeyflowers) normally ...

For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter of survival – and new research shows how flowers do it is more intriguing ...