Post and Courier

BOMMER'S BEES: Bees are collecting pollen as they ready for winter

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 ...
JSTOR Daily

The Pollen-Collecting Hairs of Campanula (Campanulaceae). I. Morphological Variation and the Retractive Mechanism

The pollen-collecting hairs (PCHs) of Campanula have been a subject of intense debate for the past two centuries. Although several morphological studies have been made on these hairs, detailed ...
JSTOR Daily

Discrimination by Pollen-Collecting Bumblebees among Differentially Rewarding Flowers of an Alpine Wildflower, Campanula rotundifolia (Campanulaceae)

We studied bumblebees (Bombus wurflenii and B. sichelii) that were collecting pollen from the flowers of Campanula rotundifolia in an alpine meadow in Switzerland. Flower size varied greatly among ...
Science Daily

Bees are born with the ability to collect pollen by buzzing, but practice makes perfect

Wild bumblebees are born with the ability to remove pollen from nectarless flowers using high-frequency vibrations, researchers have found. This study is the first to show that the ability to vibrate ...
Science Daily

Bees use multiple cues in hunt for pollen

Bees use a variety of senses and memory of previous experiences when deciding where to forage for pollen, research suggests. Bees use a variety of senses and memory of previous experiences when ...
Beyond Pesticides

Study Finds Honey Bees Frequently Collect Contaminated Pollen from Non-Crop Plants

(Beyond Pesticides, June 1, 2016) A study by researchers at Purdue University has concluded that honey bees collect most of their pollen from non-crop plants that are frequently contaminated with ...
USA Today

Robot drone bees? It's not a horror movie, it's a Walmart patent

SAN FRANCISCO — Birds do it. Bees do it. Now even educated Walmart drones may do it. The world's largest retailer has applied for a patent for drone pollinators to make up for the decline in bees and ...
Los Angeles Times

‘Feral’ honeybees are hogging all the pollen in SoCal. Here’s how to help our native bees

Well, we blinked, and now it’s August, usually the dog days of summer, a.k.a. SoCal’s hottest temps of the year, when your zucchini go into hyperdrive and your tomatoes stop producing because it’s ...
WVXU

Ever Wonder How We Get A Pollen And Mold Count?

Spores from white pine are among the first to pollinate in the spring, causing allergy sufferers a problem. On the roof of 250 William Howard Taft Road in Corryville, a 1" greased rod spins every ten ...
Hartford Courant

Connecticut study reveals bees collect pollen more often from weeds than decorative flowers, plants

Honeybees collect a surprising amount of pollen from plants like goldenrod, poison ivy, clover and ragweed — “Things that most people would consider weeds,” said Kimberly Stoner, the senior author of ...
WOWT.com

EXPLAINER: What is pollen count and how do we measure it?

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - If you’ve been sneezing a lot lately, you’re not alone. One in four people experience seasonal allergies, which happen to be particularly worse this time of year. Air Pollution ...