Honeybees rely heavily on flower patterns—not just colors—when searching for food, new research shows. A team led by the University of Exeter tested bee behavior and built bee's-eye-view simulations ...

Snapdragons are tall plants, and flower in a range of colors. In Spain, where snapdragons grow wild, these flower colors show a remarkable pattern: areas of magenta and yellow blooming flowers are ...

Color change in animals is a response shaped by evolution. Each species has developed its own method and reason for this ...

The colors and patterns of black swallowtails reveal the diversity of evolutionary dynamics acting on the sexes and the various life-history stages Six species of swallowtail butterflies occur locally ...

Every gardener knows that attracting bees is all about planting a variety of nectar-rich flowers – but does the color of those flowers really make a difference? You'd be forgiven for thinking that it ...

The search for nectar costs insects a lot of energy, so they have to be as efficient as possible. Colorful patterns on the petals can help with that. Be it mallow, foxglove or forget-me-not: many ...

New research led by scientists from the University of Bristol and Queen Mary University of London has revealed that bumblebees can tell flowers apart by patterns of scent. Flowers have lots of ...