Harvard's RoboBee will one day conduct artificial pollination and survey disaster zones, but first it has to stop crash ...

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 ...

Tiny flying robots could perform such useful tasks as pollinating crops inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while ...

But, where our helicopter rotors fight to climb higher, the humble bee can fly with ease. Scientists have recently discovered that the alpine bumblebee is capable of navigating air found above ...

Even if you've built one of the world's most advanced insect-inspired micro air vehicles (MAVs), it ultimately won't be that useful if it can't stick a good landing. That's why scientists at Harvard ...

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 ...

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’s plenty of food for them,” Maura said, noting that bees fly as far as three miles from their hive to pollinate and collect nectar. “During Linden season, when the Linden trees are blooming, ...

MOUSAVI SAYS THE HUNT FOR POLLEN STARTS WHEN WORKER BEES FLY OUT TO LOOK FOR SOURCES OF POLLEN. I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY AND TRY TO PLANT FLOWERS THAT HELP HONEY BEES. THEN THEY REPORT BACK.

About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimize reproduction, making pollination one of nature's most important processes. Bees are usually the first insects to ...

After cutting what they need, the bees fly back to their nests and use the leaves to pad their nest. They Like Some Plants More Than Others Just as a butterfly bush attracts more butterflies than ...

Through natural selection, many fly species have evolved to mimic bees to avoid predation. Serendipitous for plants, animals and humans alike, many flies are exceptional pollinators. They are ...