Snowdrops, snowflakes and winter aconites are the first flowers my bees forage upon in my father's garden.

In other words, bees would forage on blue flowers until morphs of this colour reached relatively lower frequencies compared to yellow flowers.

We assume it's while the bees are out foraging because we don't see the flies hanging around the bee hives.

The characteristics of the waggle dance performed in the hive provide the crucial information about where the returning bee successfully foraged.

They let bees forage from a food source 70 m from the hive and recorded the dance distance code of the returning foragers.

It appears to prefer south-facing slopes with low, sparse vegetation; the bee forages in nearby flower-rich areas.

In the summer, as days grow longer, bees can fly and forage for longer hours increasing the production.

The question is: how many birds and bees should forage at the red and blue patches so that their intake of nectar is maximised?

Fipronil is toxic to bees and should not be applied to vegetation when bees are foraging.

Soon they entered the suburbs, which brought them into continual contact with people as the bees foraged in gardens and in garbage cans.