If you've spotted hummingbirds near bees or wasps, you might wonder if these birds consider such insects as prey. Hummingbirds primarily eat nectar from a variety of sources. Not only can a clean ...

Bees are attracted to hummingbird feeders for the nectar, especially when other nectar sources are available nearby. Try bee guards, which make entering difficult for insects but allow a ...

Allen’s hummingbirds aren’t the smallest hummingbirds in the world. That would be the bee hummingbird that only lives in Cuba. Bee hummingbirds are two and a quarter inches long and lay eggs ...

“They wanted to know how birds could hover on the spot.” The images showed hummingbirds to be more like bees or flies than like other birds, in that they generate lift on both the downstroke ...

The bee hummingbird, which measures just five to six centimetres (two inches) long, is only found in Cuba. Its losses have been huge, with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN ...

It's time to make your nectar! Here are tips and tricks for your best chances to see the long-beaked birds as they migrate from Mexico.

University of California, Riverside, ecologist Erin Wilson-Rankin didn’t set out to study hummingbirds. A few years ago, she and her then-postdoc C. Sheena Sidhu were conducting a field experiment on ...

Spring marks a time of rebirth, renewal, and the return of what many Arkansas backyard birders would consider their favorite time of year— Hummingbird season!