Cycads use infrared heat to guide beetle pollinators, revealing an ancient plant communication system that predates flowers.

The invasive insects have been spreading across the United States for over a decade, leaving behind poop that bees are ...

While many modern plants use colorful flowers to attract pollinators, ancient palm-like plants called cycads lure them by ...

Cycad cones aren’t always hot. Instead, they follow daily cycles of heating and cooling: Pollen-laden male cones produce a big burst of heat in the late afternoon, and then ovulating female cones warm ...

This story originally appeared in the Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007 edition of the Lassen County Times. Honeybees have made it through the last 20 million years in a changing world ...

When the late summer sun falls over Ireland's Wicklow Mountains, the slopes turn purple with blooming heather. Honeybees are moved to the heathlands for the sought-after heather honey, but their ...

Scientists have developed a honeybee "superfood" that could protect the animals against the threats of climate change and habitat loss. Bee colonies that ate the supplement during trials had up to 15 ...

The late-summer bloom of heather in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland coats the range in lovely purple flowers. Beekeepers ...

A class at Silverspring School in Saskatoon is one of 26 across the province taking part in the One School One Farm ...

Giannutri is a little island off the coast Italy. Its isolation ensured that honeybees never got there under their own steam ...

More homeowners are planting edible flowers because they offer a unique combination of beauty, flavor, and environmental ...

To be clear, Elvis and other dogs are not actually doing calculus. (As Pennings writes in his paper, “In fact, he has trouble ...