Close‑up recordings of honeybee swarms deliver an exquisitely detailed portrait of one of nature’s most efficient pollinators. From the listener’s perspective you hear a tight cluster of rapid wing ...

Bumblebees collect pollen by various methods. Some types of flowers, such as potato plants, need tougher treatment to make them release their pollen. In these cases, the bee uses a technique called ...

When pollinators visit flowers, they produce a variety of characteristic sounds, from wing flapping during hovering, to landing and takeoff. However, these sounds are extremely small compared to other ...

Ongoing research into the effect of environmental change on the buzzing of bees reveals that high temperatures and exposure to heavy metals reduces the frequency (and audible pitch) of non-flight wing ...

Summer-like temperatures have arrived in much of Michigan, and as wild flowers and trees bloom, bees have followed. Bees play a crucial role as pollinators in the seasonal ecosystem in Michigan, but ...