In James Hung’s collection at UC San Diego is a kaleidoscope of native bees, many of which bear little resemblance to the honeybees and bumblebees we know. The biggest are grape-sized and glossy black ...

Flower colors that contrast with their background are more important to foraging bees than patterns of colored veins on pale flowers according to new research, by Heather Whitney from the University ...

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 ...

Flower garden with a variety of colors, one with a bee on it - Marina Lohrbach/Getty Images As the bee population continues to decline at an alarming rate, it's important to do what we can to help ...

There's a reason why bees can see you while you're still searching for the source of that buzzing noise: Their color vision is five times faster than human vision and among the fastest color vision ...

You might remember the hullabaloo a couple of years ago surrounding the color of a certain dress – some claimed it was gold and others swore it was blue. The reason for the disagreement was due to ...

Bees see color at about triple the speed that humans do, a new study finds. The findings are the first to measure bumblebee color vision speed and show how it compares with that of monochromatic ...

Bee keepers in north-eastern France were aghast to find that their bees had produced a bizarre blue colored honey. NEW DELHI: Bee keepers in north-eastern France were aghast to find that their bees ...