Hummingbird flower mites use static electricity to hop between flowers. Researchers initially thought scent guided them.

Terry Masear’s dedication to nursing hummingbirds back to health offers tidbits of wisdom about practicing empathy and living each moment to the fullest.

Hummingbirds are small but remarkably tough. Some species make migrations of more than 5,590 miles a year. Their journeys are ...

When hummingbirds visit multiple flowers, you usually see the mites going down their beaks only when they touch the first ...

A trio of biologists from the University of Connecticut; the Organization for Tropical Studies, in Costa Rica; and the University of Bristol, has found that hummingbird flower mites use hummingbirds ...