Tiny mites seem capable of relying on the power of static cling to hop into hummingbird nostrils and move between flowers. By Douglas Main Flower mites spend their lives slurping nectar and ...

Many hummingbirds stop in Mississippi and spend spring, summer and part of fall in the state. Many others continue north as far as Canada, and they need food regardless of how far they travel. Making ...

Hummingbirds may not be on the forefront of ... and they need food regardless of how far they travel. Making nectar to pour into feeders is simple. It's a 4-to-1 mix of water and sugar.

Prior research has shown that hummingbird flower mites spend their lives eating pollen and sipping nectar from flowers. But to do so, and to procreate, they must move from flower to flower.

such that important nectar flowers have bloomed out from the heat before migrating hummers have arrived on their breeding grounds. These pioneering hummingbird individuals exploring new reaches ...

In a remote mountain cave in Ecuador, hummingbirds were discovered sleeping ... a sparsely vegetated slope where it is hard to come by nectar-providing flowers, water or shelter from freezing ...