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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

Honeybees tend to get the most attention, but in Britain alone there are about 270 species of bee Honeybees turn nectar into honey. Plenty of other insects drink the sweet energy drink produced by ...

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 ...

Look at the fruit in your kitchen or the flowers outside the window. Much of it exists because a pollinator did its job. Some ...

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 ...