Japanese Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) is admired for its fragrant, tubular flowers that attract hummingbirds and bees.

Want to make your outdoor space a bee-friendly environment, but not sure where to start? Here are five of the best flowers to plant no matter what size space you’re working with. You don’t ...

Bee-flies have short antennae. Their hovering style of flight is also quite distinctive, although hairy-footed flower bees (Anthophora plumipes) hover well too - but these have much longer antennae ...

Lots of plants rely on insects like bees to reproduce. To make a seed, a flower needs to be pollinated. Pollen from one flower needs to travel to another. Bees are very important for carrying the ...

If you think the bee is struggling the best thing to do is gently put the bee onto a bee-friendly flower. If there are no bee-friendly flowers around, mix 50/50 white sugar and water to give the ...

They need bees to spread their pollen and help make new seeds. Bees love nectar so flowers offer up their nectar as a reward for visiting them. And they’ve got manyways of showing what’s on offer.

• Host a picnic in the flower patch featuring foods made possible by bees, like apples, cherries, guacamole, almonds, melons, and even cheese—since cows often eat pollinated plants. Make bee ...

Some flowers go to extraordinary lengths to attract pollinators. Bee orchids mimic the shape and scent of bees in order to lure them into ‘pseudocopulation’, where the male insect attempts to mate ...

Even in small doses, neonicotinoids harm bees in a variety of ways that can make it harder for them to survive. Exposed bees become weak and disoriented, so they can’t find flowers or their nests, can ...

It's a little known fact that economists love bees - or at least, the idea of bees. The Royal Economic Society's logo is a honeybee. The Fable Of The Bees, published in 1732, uses honeybees as a ...

Bee pollen may also contain some flower nectar and bee digestive enzymes. Once the bees return home with the pollen they collect, other bees cover it with a small amount of beeswax and honey.