Learn important facts about native bees. Plant your garden with native bees in mind and help these powerful pollinators ...
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 ...
How hard can it ‘bee’ to look after pollinators? Bees are amazing creatures. Not only do they make tasty honey, but they are also involved in pollinating lots of our food and wild flowers.
The study illustrates how the interplay between plant traits and bee behaviors can shape pollinator communities.
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 ...
reproduction will drop significantly, and the hive's population will be less than its peak during the summer months. During the winter, bee hives are at their most vulnerable state." Strong ...