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

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

The honeybee is one of the goldenrod's best customers, collecting its pollen for protein and its nectar in order to produce honey ... to the bee's body, moving with it from flower to flower ...

Gardens buzz with life, especially when they host flowers that attract bees. These industrious pollinators are drawn to ...

created more than 140,000 metric tons of honey in 1997. While foraging for nectar and pollen, bees inadvertently transfer pollen from the male to the female components of flowers. Each year ...

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

It is only by going out and documenting these new species can we have a better and more comprehensive understanding of how ...

Next, they inserted the beak with its load of fluorescent pollen into a new set of male and female flowers and tracked where the marked and unmarked pollen particles ended up. The hummingbird ...

What exactly gives honey its therapeutic potential, and how do the microorganisms within it influence its benefits and safety ...

They need bees to spread their pollen and help ... Bees find the smell of flowers rather lovely. Not to mention their amazing shapes. From flatsunflowers to -tube shaped- honey suckle.

Honey contains a unique microbiome that makes it not only a coveted natural sweetener, but also introduces unique probiotic ...