Hard-to-groom zones line up with where flower reproductive parts touch the insects Bee bodies may be built just right to help pollen hitch a ride between flowers. For the first time, scientists have ...

Were ancient bees specialists, devoting their pollen-collecting attentions to very specific plant partners? Or were they generalists, buzzing around to collect pollen from a variety of flowers in ...

Nov. 29—NORMAN,Okla. — Scientists have discovered a new species and entire subgenus of blue mining bee in the southern plains. The bee is known for its unique pollen-collecting brushes and packs. The ...

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 ...

Bees use a variety of senses and memory of previous experiences when deciding where to forage for pollen, research by the University of Exeter suggests. The researchers believe pollen-collecting bees ...

A new study has uncovered the secrets of 'pollen thief' bees -- which take pollen from flowers but fail to act as effective pollinators -- and the threat they pose to certain plant species. A new ...

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 ...

Flowering plants make pollen as their main way to reproduce. When bees are looking for nectar to make honey, they collect pollen and store it as food for the bee colony. Bee pollen has been used for ...

The European honeybee (Apis mellifera), introduced into North America in the early 1600s, is often what people visualize when they think about bees. With about 4,000 species of bees that occur in ...

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 ...