About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimize reproduction, making pollination one of ...

Bee-flies look adorable. Seeing the dark-edged bee-fly hover in mid-air, some people describe it as a tiny, fluffy, flying narwhale. It has a hairy little body and face, and a very long, straw-like ...

Carinthia is buzzing again. 33,000 bee colonies are awakening and Carinthia's beekeepers are looking forward to a good honey ...

The next step was to find out how I could fly with the bees, because they are fast. I told myself, if I can't fly with the bee, then the bee has to fly with me—that is, with the camera ...

In the course of her lifetime, a worker bee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 miles and tap two million flowers. In a single ...

There is a popular misconception that bees shouldn't be able to fly. In reality, this is not true, because they can and do fly all the time. The science behind how they can fly involves the way ...

Then there are the bee flies. As the name suggests, many species of bee fly (Bombyliidae) have fuzzy, bee-like bodies. Australia boasts around 400 species of bee fly. Bee flies feed on the nectar ...