Some flowers go to extraordinary lengths to attract pollinators. Bee orchids mimic the shape and scent of bees in order to lure them into ‘pseudocopulation’, where the male insect attempts to mate ...

As a result, native Trichocolletes bees appear to mistake the orchid for legume plants frequently enough that the orchid gets pollinated. We quantified the flower colour signals from both plants ...

The perfume that male orchid bees create by collecting scents from the flowers they visit is designed to make females choose them rather than another mate. Male orchid bees collect raw materials ...

Staff believe the reappearance of the bee orchid is due to a new conservation grazing regime. Cows were controlled via GPS collar and allowed to eat only in specific areas, rather than roaming ...

Unable to resist a tempting aroma, the traps successfully lured their target – large iridescent orchid bees – including four species never before recorded in Ecuador, according to a study ...

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 ...

Most species of orchid bees have metallic coloration, ranging from green, purple, red, and yellow. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Sept. 23, 2011, issue of Science, published ...