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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 ...

Bumblebees collect pollen by various methods. Some types of flowers, such as potato plants, need tougher treatment to make them release their pollen. In these cases, the bee uses a technique called ...

A bee was seen packing a huge amount of pollen into its hind-leg baskets while pollinating a prickly pear cactus flower in ...

Bumblebees collect up to seven times more toxic metals than honeybees, raising concerns about bee health and pollination.

Bumblebees are picking up dramatically more toxic heavy metals than honeybees, even when both species forage in the same ...

We’re currently dealing with winter conditions, but to warm us up, I thought I’d cover something we observe, but may not fully understand, in spring, summer, and fall: why do bees visit flowers? Much ...

Honeybees rely on plant pollen as a protein-packed food source. And some are even willing to steal from other bees to get it. Pollen stealing has been seen before, in the United States. But now, ...