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 ...

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Do not swat at bees as they may sting in defense. If a bee flies nearby, try to move slowly and calmly away. Call a local pest control expect if a bee or wasp nest is in the house or garden.

There are more species of fly in the UK than there are mammals on the planet,' states Erica. Among these are beauties like Bombylius bee-flies, picture-winged flies and the hornet hoverfly (the UK's ...

The article highlights the role of various insects like flies, beetles, and wasps in pollination, which is crucial for the reproduction of flowering plants. Bees are well-known pollinators, but other ...

These earliest angiosperms were likely first pollinated by the wind, flies, and beetles. But with the evolution of bees and their transition to herbivory, bees started to visit flowers for their ...

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 ...