Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We see an illustration of neanderthals at the entrance of a cave holding flowers for a burial. Scientists are blaming an ...

Hard-to-groom zones line up with where flower reproductive parts touch the insects Bee bodies may be built just right to help pollen hitch a ride between flowers. For the first time, scientists have ...

After grooming, bees still have pollen on body parts that match the position of flower pollen-sacs and stigmas, according to a new study. After grooming, bees still have pollen on body parts that ...

It is well known that animal-pollinated plants usually offer nectar or pollen to reward vectors for pollen transfer. While nectar is a kind of sugar water, pollen is protein-rich, a must-need nutrient ...

When we think of fossils, we tend to imagine the strong, sturdy bones of dinosaurs and the hard, calcified shells of ammonites. Most of us do not picture the delicately preserved petals of an ancient ...

Here’s a bumblebee tip that might get a slowpoke plant to bloom early. Just bite its leaves. At least three species of bumblebees use their mouthparts to snip little confetti bits out of plant foliage ...

Hay fever sufferers are urged to take precautions as higher pollen levels than average are forecast, particularly in eastern ...

After grooming, bees still have pollen on body parts that match the position of flower pollen-sacs and stigmas, according to a study published September 6, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by ...