Some years ago, scientists examining wild plants in a western corner of the United States encountered a curiously colorful ...

“They’re like something out of a monster cartoon with this huge yellow-orange face,” Susan Cobey, a bee breeder with Washington State University’s Department of Entomology, recently told ...

Bees prefer yellow over red, pushing some wildflowers to evolve new colors - and start a surprising evolutionary change.

The larvae of the Short-Necked Oil Beetles lurk among flowers waiting for a passing bee to carry them back to its nest, where they feed on all the pollen the bee has collected. The species' name comes ...

Bees prefer yellow flowers to red ones, reveals new research. And the findings may eventually lead to higher-yielding crops, ...