Adrian Dyer receives funding from The Australian Research Council. If you’ve ever compared a frozen pizza to the photo on the box, you know the feeling of being duped by appetising looks. In our ...

A survey of orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon, carried out in the 1990s, is shedding new light the impact of deforestation on the scent-collecting pollinators, which some view as bellwethers of ...

The perfume that male orchid bees create by collecting scents from the flowers they visit is designed to make females choose them rather than another mate. Male orchid bees collect raw materials from ...

A specimen from the genus Euglossa collected during the study in Rondônia, Brazil. Credit: K. Christopher Brown A survey of orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondônia, carried out in the ...