You might remember the hullabaloo a couple of years ago surrounding the color of a certain dress – some claimed it was gold and others swore it was blue. The reason for the disagreement was due to ...

If you've ever found yourself in awe of nature's colors—a clear blue day, the budding daffodils in your garden, the farmer's market's rich leafy greens—consider this: You may not even be seeing all of ...

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 ...

Flower garden with a variety of colors, one with a bee on it - Marina Lohrbach/Getty Images As the bee population continues to decline at an alarming rate, it's important to do what we can to help ...

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, by Heather Whitney from the University ...

Bumble bees go "off color" and can't remember which flowers have the most nectar when they are feeling under the weather. The behavior of the bumbling bees reveals that, like humans who are ill, bees ...

Bees see color at about triple the speed that humans do, a new study finds. The findings are the first to measure bumblebee color vision speed and show how it compares with that of monochromatic ...

A rainy day is the perfect time to cozy up to a good research book. Currently, I’m reading about the diversity of flowers and their pollinators. Bees are the major pollinator of flowers and share a ...

In mathematics, you need at most only four different colors to produce a map in which no two adjacent regions have the same color. Utah and Arizona are considered adjacent, but Utah and New Mexico, ...

Spring has finally arrived, and it makes me smile every time I step outside. New green leaves are pushing themselves into the sunlight as plants build the solar panels that will fuel them throughout ...