Red flowers have a 'magic trait' to attract birds and keep bees away

For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Arkansas entomologists study bees’ color response

Red means stop. Green means go. But to bees, colors reveal a smorgasbord of available food sources. Neelendra Joshi, associate professor of entomology with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station ...
Napa Valley Register

Bees, butterflies attracted to color, scent

A rainy day is the perfect time to cozy up to a good research book. Currently, I’m reading about the diversity of flowers and their pollinators. Bees are the major pollinator of flowers and share a ...
Phys.org

To improve surveys and other research, entomologists study how colors attract wild bees

Wild bees respond differently to sampling traps with vanes of different colors and light reflectivity in a livestock pasture ecosystem. Credit: Scientific Reports (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-10286 ...

Have You Ever Seen a Blue Bee?

Bees are distinctive for their black and yellow coloring, but did you know some species are blue? The blue-banded bee is a ...