To bring all the bees to the yard! These pollinators love warm, bright blooms early in the morning. But how did these plants end up facing east? It turns out they spend their whole life getting in ...

SUGARLOAF TWP. — Sunflowers are popping up this fall, bathing fields here in yellow. Besides adding color, sunflowers enrich soil and sustain bees, butterflies and other pollinators on fields where ...

In the first long-term, community-level field study of wild bumble bee nutrition, a team of ecologists led by Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden discovered that wild bees aren't ...

Nothing eases the transition from the heat of summer into the early days of fall festivals quite like a field of sunflowers lit by a backdrop of the setting or rising sun. Brave potential bees for the ...

(KXAN) – A study by Agricultural Research Service, which is the in-house research agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, showed honey bees revisit the same flower patch more often than bumble ...

These cheerful flowers don't always make the best neighbors. Sunflowers need full sun but can shade or stunt nearby plants with natural compounds. Keep potatoes, beans, and rhubarb away due to shared ...

Butterflies and bumble bees are all the rage these days at the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology. It’s all in black and white — literally. The museum is hosting or assisting with two separate ...