Watching a hummingbird dart through a garden, wings a blur and iridescent feathers flashing in the sun, is a truly magical ...

There’s an abundance of information available about how to attract hummingbirds to your yard and feeders, but information about how to keep bees away from hummingbird feeders tends to be scarce. The ...

Sometimes nature surprises us with extraordinary products of evolution. One prime example is the extraordinary sword-billed ...

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 ...

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 ...

The very smallest bird on Earth is the Bee Hummingbird, which can be found in the Zapata in Cuba. The remarkable hummingbird is barely larger than the bee it is named after and beats its tiny wings an ...

DEAR JOAN: I read with interest the question that appeared in Friday’s column from Catherine Henslee, who wrote to you about the disappearance of the hummingbirds from her backyard feeder, which she ...

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 ...

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 ...

With migration patterns shifting for hummingbirds, there's a good chance you can attract them in the fall if you plant this ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...