Bees play a critical role in pollinating all kinds of valuable crops and plants. Honeybees collect both nectar and pollen from the flowering plants and trees they visit. The nectar is used to ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 1, 2016) A study by researchers at Purdue University has concluded that honey bees collect most of their pollen from non-crop plants that are frequently contaminated with ...

As Muth explains in a two-part blog for Scientific American, bees operate as generalists when it comes to sipping nectar and collecting pollen from flowers. The all-female worker bees use ...

After grooming, bees still have pollen on body parts that match the position of flower pollen-sacs and stigmas, according to a new study. After grooming, bees still have pollen on body parts that ...

Robotic bees seem like a fairly simple proposition; fly the robot around to flowers, collect pollen, transfer pollen, done. Just one problem: Some plants don't give it up that easily. Pollen is ...

In the afternoon, you can see the stigmas come out, ready for the next morning’s visiting bees. Stigmas are the parts of a flower that collect pollen from bees as they move from flower to flower.

Pollen is essential for both bees and plants to raise the next generation. To understand why a conflict arises, we have to understand how bees collect pollen. Bees use their forelegs and mandibles ...

But, collecting it may adversely affect the health of the bees and even destroy the colony. Bee pollen is a natural mixture of bee secretions, honey, enzymes, wax, and flower pollen. It provides ...

Flowers depend on pollen for pollination, and flower-visiting bees collect large quantities of pollen to feed their larvae. However, there has been little work on flower-pollinator interactions in ...