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

When it comes to deciding where they're going to get their next meal, different species of bees may be attracted to different flower traits.

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

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 ...

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 ...

A biologist explains what to focus on if you’re designing a garden with pollinators in mind − and what you don’t need to ...

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 ...

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.

Supplements derived from bee pollen, which is comprised of flower pollen, nectar, enzymes, honey, wax, and bee secretions, are becoming increasingly sought-after due to their myriad health benefits.