Friends of Secrest Aboretum's plant sale will take place 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. on May 10 at Secrest Arboretum featuring more than ...

Gardeners can prepare for spring 2025 by building a bee-friendly garden. The vital pollinators are ... Use pesticides only ...

Charles Darwin proposed a simple explanation. He believed bees chose the same flowers again and again because switching would ...

Pollinating insects such as bumblebees often repeatedly visit the same type of flower, even when a variety of flowers bloom ...

Curiously, it’s male bees you’ll most often find sleeping in flowers. Yet, why are they passed out like this? Plus, why do ...

Decades ago, the Bombus affinis species of the bumble bee could be seen thriving across the Eastern and Midwest regions of ...

A study of bumble bees has uncovered a potential reason for the insects' decline. By studying bumble bee exposure to ...

Luckily, Massachusetts has plenty of parks, gardens and public spaces with beautiful blooms that make for the perfect spring day - and the perfect photo-op. Whether your favorite is daffodils, tulips ...

Realized flower constancy in bumble bees: Optimal foraging strategy balancing cognitive and travel costs and its possible consequences for floral diversity. Functional Ecology , 2025; 39 (3): 863 ...