A honeybee collects pollen from Japanese privet. (Photo by David Ammon) STARKVILLE, Miss.—While flowers are known to be most attractive to bees, less is known about the nutrition flowers actually ...

The diversity and availability of pollen foraged by honey bees across urban and suburban areas in the US varies drastically with the seasons. The diversity and availability of pollen foraged by honey ...

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Bee pollen is the flower pollen from various plants, including buckwheat, maize, pine and typha. Worker bees collect pollen on their legs and bodies, mix it with salivary gland secretions or nectar, ...

A new study that involved fitting bumblebees with tiny radio frequency tags shows long-term exposure to a neonicotinoid pesticide hampers bees' ability to forage for pollen. The study shows how ...

Morning Glory Bees, Cemolobus ipomoea, are rare, solitary bees that specialize on the pollen of morning glory flowers (Ipomoea spp.). This bee is relatively large, over a half inch long and it is ...

The bees are working very hard to collect all of the pollen they can. Nectar is very scarce at this time of the year, and the pollen will be one of their winter’s food sources. The collection of fall ...