bumblebee

Large bumblebees remember flowers with high sugar nectar better, while small bumblebees remember the locations of all flowers equally.

By carrying pollen from plant to plant in their quest for nectar, bees help to facilitate plant reproduction, giving bees an essential role in the sustainability of our agriculture.  Bee populations have been threatened over the last decade by a…

A bee. Image taken from Wikimedia Commons.Amid the startling find that the bee population is dropping, there are speculations into what is causing this sudden trend. Recently, work by scientists (original article here) have looked beyond pesticides and…