The sight and sound of a bumblebee or a honey bee buzzing from flower to flower in an alpine meadow or a roadside planting is ...
The rusty patched bumble bee once pollinated flowers from the Midwestern Prairies to the East Coast. However, the population of this bumble bee has declined by 87% in the past two decades.
Spring is approaching in the northern hemisphere, and with it come the perennial considerations about which kinds of flowers ...
However, the bumblebee has something most bees don’t: a secret handshake with the flower. It’s called buzz pollination, and a bumblebee does it by gripping the plant with its legs and vibratin ...
In a study published in the journal Ecological Applications, Concordia researchers look at how certain floral characteristics ...