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. Researchers' observation of how ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bees rely on simple decision rules, using color as the first clue when choosing flowers and adding more cues only when needed.