Flowers equal food for bees, and they also occur on trees, shrubs, fruits and vegetables, herbs, grasses and ground cover. So think beyond the flower bed when it comes to feeding bees.

Bees can sense a flower’s electric field—unless fertilizer messes with the buzz Bumblebees are really good at picking up on cues from flowers, even electrical signals. By Lauren J. Young ...

Tiny desert bees might fly only 50 meters (about 150 feet) from their nest to a flower. Other bees might travel vastly greater distances, 3.2–6.4 kilometers (2–4 miles) or even 14 kilometers ...

Bees actively adjust flower choice based on color and distance: Updating 'flower constancy' beyond Darwin's theory. Story by Science X staff • 21h.

In fact, only about 10% of bees are social, and most types don’t make honey. Most bees lead solitary lives, digging nests in the ground or finding abandoned beetle burrows in dead wood to call home.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) currently lists 156 species of bees as vulnerable, 20 as endangered, and 11 as critically endangered globally. While those numbers are ...

Flower power on Indian farms helps bees and boosts livelihoods. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 11 / 231129003838.htm. University of Reading.

With about 600 different species of bees in Washington, you would think it would be easy to spot one. But that black and yellow insect you see quickly darting from flower to flower could just as easil ...

Bees actively adjust flower choice based on color and distance: Updating 'flower constancy' beyond Darwin's theory. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases ...