Learn important facts about native bees. Plant your garden with native bees in mind and help these powerful pollinators ...

The nectar passes from bee to bee in the colony, mixing with more and more bee saliva. Eventually, when it’s almost honey, a ...

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 study illustrates how the interplay between plant traits and bee behaviors can shape pollinator communities.

Bees feed on nectar, which is made inside of flowers. Whilst they are feeding, the flower's pollen gets attached to them. They then fly off to another flower, pollinating it by dropping the other ...

While the bee gets nothing but a wasted effort, the orchid transfers some of its pollen to the bee. When the bee flies off and lands on another orchid it deposits the pollen, allowing the flowers to ...

Where wasps are hunters and scavengers, bees are vegetarians, feeding themselves and their offspring entirely on the nectar and pollen found in flowers. Everyone knows that honeybees live in hives ...