Euglossini, Orchid Bees, are some of the loveliest bees around. While they are in the same family as honey bees, they don't live in hives, they don't make honey, and they are difficult to see, flying ...

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, which some view as ...

For the first time, researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute track unique signals from tiny transmitters glued to individual orchid bees, yielding new insight into the role of bees ...

Male bees display a remarkable passion for collecting scents: they deposit scents from various sources in special pockets on their hind legs, thus composing their own fragrance. This behaviour has ...

A fragrant perfume has brought many a man and many a woman together. Orchid bees, too, appear to rely on scent when it comes to choosing a partner. In the course of their lives, the males compile a ...

An orchid found in China takes the plant's famed trickery to new level. Aug. 12, 2009 — -- Charles Darwin would have loved it. Scientists have found that an orchid on the Chinese island of Hainan ...

A recent study finds orchid bee diversity is supported by forest patches along rivers near oil palm plantations in Brazil. The study lends evidence that remnant patches of forest support the movement ...

Biologists have long believed that orchid bees and orchids rely on each other in equal measure. The shimmering bees pollinate orchids in return for the flowers’ donation of perfumes, which male bees ...

The species were recorded in the Canandé Biological Reserve in the Chocó-Darién rainforest, according to the study. Photo from Hernández Hernández, de Oliveira, Diaz-Guevara, Alarcón-Ortiz, ...

Blue-green orchid bees zip through increasingly scarce patches of tropical forest to pollinate rare flowers. For the first time, researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute track unique ...