Bees and other pollinators don't necessarily like the flowers that we do. Fussy double-flowered peonies, vivid petunias, and ...

I was reading a children's book about insects to my daughter, and it said that bees see colors differently than humans do. My daughter immediately asked, in short succession: "What colors do they see?

Bees and other pollinators don't necessarily like the flowers that we do. Fussy double-flowered peonies, vivid petunias, and scentless pelargoniums aren't of much interest to bees. In fact, bees ...

Unlike human vision, which prioritizes high resolution and fine detail, honeybee vision is low resolution but highly specialized for detecting the visual signals that matter most for survival—flowers.

Have you ever wondered why bees or butterflies flock to certain flowers, while completely ignoring others? How do our flying pollinator friends decide what plants to feast upon, and which to flutter ...

Since Darwin's time, the phenomenon known as flower constancy -- i.e., where insects consistently visit the same flower type even when many others are also present -- has been understood as a passive ...