Male bees display a remarkable passion for collecting scents: they deposit scents from various sources in special pockets on their hind legs, thus composing their own fragrance. This behaviour has ...

In the tropical forest of Barro Colorado Island, Panama, metallic blue, green, gold and red bees follow the fragrances of flowering orchids. Male euglossines, or orchid bees, are wild New World bees ...

The species were recorded in the Canandé Biological Reserve in the Chocó-Darién rainforest, according to the study. Photo from Hernández Hernández, de Oliveira, Diaz-Guevara, Alarcón-Ortiz, ...

A specimen from the genus Euglossa collected during the study in Rondônia, Brazil. Credit: K. Christopher Brown A survey of orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondônia, carried out in the ...

Blue-green orchid bees zip through increasingly scarce patches of tropical forest to pollinate rare flowers. For the first time, researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute track unique ...

Some people -- and animals -- will go to any lengths to attract members of the opposite sex, including the use of aliases and lies. As many as 10,000 species of dainty orchids in the floral world also ...

Adrian Dyer receives funding from The Australian Research Council. If you’ve ever compared a frozen pizza to the photo on the box, you know the feeling of being duped by appetising looks. In our ...

The reason why male bees collect scents in pockets on their hind legs remained a mystery for a long time. As an attractant? As a wedding gift? To show off to other males? Researchers have now figured ...

LAWRENCE — A survey of orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondônia, carried out in the 1990s, is shedding new light the impact of deforestation on the scent-collecting pollinators, which ...