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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the tropical forest of Barro Colorado Island, Panama, metallic blue, green, gold and red bees follow the fragrances of flowering orchids. Male euglossines, or orchid bees, are wild New World bees ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deep in the tropical rainforests of northern Ecuador, researchers equipped with slingshots launched traps scented with vanilla, clove, wintergreen and eucalyptus up into the tree canopy, hoping to ...

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 ...