Honeybees rely heavily on flower patterns -- not just colors -- when searching for food, new research shows. Honeybees rely heavily on flower patterns -- not just colours -- when searching for food, ...

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 ...

Flowers employ a rich array of colour signals, underpinned by the visual systems of their pollinators, to attract and guide foraging insects, birds and other animals. Pollinators perceive the world in ...