Hummingbirds are one of the most beautiful birds to watch, it is no wonder you would want to entice them for your backyard with a feeder. However, you might have noticed that your hummingbird feeder ...

Bees and hummingbirds are important garden pollinators attracted to the nectar in flowers and the sugar water in hummingbird feeders. While bees seldom harm hummingbirds, they can drain a feeder ...

Plant honeysuckle to attract hummingbirds to your garden. The fragrant perennial shrub has a tubular flower that is perfectly suited to the birds' beaks. Fenkep Now that the last cold snap of winter ...

Q: Last year I was advised to try swabbing the feeding ports with canola, or like oil to discourage bees at our hummingbird feeders but that doesn’t seem to have any effect this year. I don’t know ...

You probably know that hummingbirds can hover, if you've ever watched them feed. But these tiny pollinators lead fascinating ...

Home gardeners can help maintain, and even encourage, populations of honeybees, native bees, wasps, beetles, butterflies, moths and hummingbirds. What do these things have in common? They're all ...

DEAR JOAN: We have three bird feeders in our front yard and two hummingbird feeders in the front and back yards. We’ve been in our house for just over 29 years, and this is the first time I had to ...

Learn more about the breathtaking rapid wing speed of hummingbirds. An expert reveals how fast hummingbirds fly and flap ...

When a fiery throated hummingbird approaches a flower to feed, its wings are beating at nearly 100 times per second. To the naked eye, its wings are moving so fast ...

We are dependent on bees and other insects, birds and other animals for pollination of 1,000 plants grown for food, beverages, fibers, spices and medicines. Just to emphasize how important bees are, ...

It’s hummingbird season and, for many Fresno and Clovis residents, that means setting up feeders to draw these little birds with fast wings and slender beaks and watch them elegantly flutter around ...