Bees exhibit a complex interplay of sensory perception, learning and ecological interactions when seeking floral resources and effecting pollination. Individual foragers adjust their preferences for ...

The insect foraging (for) gene encodes a cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG) that affects foraging behavior. In Drosophila two different for alleles have been found, and the two alleles affect ...

Pollinators underpin the reproduction of most flowering plants, sustaining ecosystems and global agriculture. Nutritional ecology investigates how the quality, quantity and elemental composition of ...

Researchers from the University of Florence and University of Pisa conducted an experiment demonstrating that managed honeybees (Apis mellifera) on Giannutri Island significantly deplete nectar and ...

The ability for bees to forage for food efficiently is vital to both their fitness and the pollination of wild plants and crops. However, according to a new Perspective, foraging has become ...

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.

Around the world, honeybees are dying in large numbers. This die-off is in part because of a deadly virus that can kill bees or impair their ability to return to the hives after foraging. But in a ...

As abundant and widespread bees, it is common to see both bumble bees and honey bees foraging on the same flower species during the summer, whether in Britain or many other countries. Yet researchers ...

Farmers who rent honeybee colonies for crop pollination are paying for a service measured in the tens of millions of flower ...