Sept. 17 (UPI) --Research published Thursday in the journal Current Biology suggests honeybees can be scent-trained, similar to the way dogs are trained to follow a scent by first sniffing the target.

BISMARCK, N.D. - Bee boxes sit to the west of Clark Coleman's sunflower field north of Bismarck. Honey bees play a vital role in pollinating sunflowers, helping increase yield and quality. But up ...

There are five social species of bumble bees (Bombus spp.) native to Florida, and each is an important pollinator throughout the state. Although European honeybees make up about 85 percent of our ...

(CN) — Scientists in Argentina have trained honeybees to more effectively pollinate sunflowers — a method they believe can also be applied to increase pollination rates for other valuable crops in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For many years now, there has been a very strong movement to bring attention to the importance of pollinators in our ecosystem.

For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter ...

Honeybees were better at pollinating crops after scent training. By Matt Kaplan To fill your homes with blueberries, sunflowers and almonds, farmers rent honeybees. When all goes well, the bees ...

A person taking flowers out of pots - sergey kolesnikov/Shutterstock If you're a gardener, you probably understand the important relationship bees have with plants, from flowers to fruit trees to ...

In the media buzz about bee losses, a lot of proposals have been floated about how to replace natural pollinators, come the beepocalypse. Robotic bees seem like a fairly simple proposition; fly the ...

BISMARCK — Bee boxes sit to the west of Clark Coleman’s sunflower field north of Bismarck. Honeybees play a vital role in pollinating sunflowers, helping increase yield and quality. But up until now, ...