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 ...

This article examines some of the potential side effects of bee pollen. As bees travel from flower to flower collecting pollen, some of that pollen may come from allergenic plants. In many cases ...

Bees collect this on their legs and bodies and take it back to their hive as a food source. Bee pollen may also contain some flower nectar and bee digestive enzymes. Once the bees return home with ...

Honey bees are doing something never seen before: thriving without pollen. For the first time ... designed to mimic what bees normally collect from flowers. The key ingredient is isofucosterol ...

Pollen and nectar are floral rewards that bring bees to flowers and hold their attention. Bees collect pollen and nectar as food for themselves and their immature brood, their blind, grublike ...

Look closely at them, and if they've been visiting flowers you will notice yellow pollen on their legs. As the bees collect pollen, they move it across their bodies and to their legs, where they ...

Bees collect nectar and pollen from the various floral sources over the spring and summer months. Honey changes from year to year, depending on the amount of rainfall during the season and what ...

Honeybees rely on plant pollen as a protein-packed food source. And some are even willing to steal from other bees to get it. Pollen stealing has been seen before, in the United States. But now ...

These social bees collect pollen and nectar from flowers, fruits, and vegetables, and build and protect their hives. Female honey bees serve as worker bees and queen bees, while male honey bees ...

Western Australia has the world's largest collection ... been no nectar or pollen," Dr Barbour said. Photo shows A European honey bee squeezing its head into a flower for pollen.