A new study analyzed pollen from 57 North American plant species, identifying those most nutritionally beneficial for bees, ...

Bees also exhibit pollen constancy, meaning they may visit ... sticks to them easily and they have a space on their hind legs or under their abdomen, depending on the species, that is shaped ...

While foraging for nectar and pollen, bees inadvertently transfer pollen from the male to the female components of flowers. Each year, bees pollinate 95 crops worth an estimated $10 billion in the ...

The bee then combs the pollen off its hairy body into little baskets on its legs, called corbiculae. This way of gathering pollen is called buzz pollination. Most of the pollen collected will be taken ...

The pollen is transported to the hive via the bee's hind legs, packed into honeycombs, covered with a mixture of wax and honey, and used as a source of nutrients for bees and larvae. While bee ...

New research reveals that bees with access to diverse pollen sources in spring and autumn have significantly better winter ...

Clearly, pollination truly does rely on the birds and the bees, as well as insects, to fulfill plant reproduction. They are ...

The Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee has a unique life cycle. Like cuckoo birds, they lay their eggs in the nests of other species ...

Curtin University research has revealed that high densities of European honey bees could be harming Australian native bees' ...

The first is what many of us are most familiar with: by using showy flowers to attract bees and butterflies, whom the pollen will stick to and who will then carry it to another plant or tree of ...

“The idea is that a small amount of pollen carried by bees makes its way into the honey and that regular ingestion of the ...

The bee is a pollen generalist, visiting a wide range of plants. Lauren Owens Lambert One summer day in 2018, Sam Droege lowered his net and scooped up a few small bees buzzing around the blossoms ...