The composition of bee pollen can vary widely since it is sourced from different plant species, geographies, and seasons.

Where once there were vast areas of forest and other natural habitats, farmland now covers much of Earth—including 70% of the ...

An international group of researchers, led by the Smith Bee Lab at Auburn University, have now shown that honey bees ...

Mirroring the mechanisms that make human faces and bodies—and those of many multicellular organisms—symmetrical, bee colonies ...

Charles Hammer Special to The Star In 1738, the young Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus dared to explore how the birds and the bees carry myriads of pollen grains (male) from the stamens of many ...

Bee-friendly gardens make people happy! Whether your preference is a tranquil sanctuary from a chaotic world, an eye-catching ...

A few years after Ortega-Jiménez noticed spiderwebs nabbing bugs, Robert’s team found that bees can gather negatively charged ...

Digger bees dig their nests in bare soil. Flight season is from February to June. Females have long hairs, scopae, on their hind legs for carrying pollen. To invite them to your flowers ...

The little honey bee is a unique little insect. Her anatomy was engineered, developed and equipped to do the things necessary ...

Garden bees are extremely important pollinators of both native plants and commercial crops. Their flower visits insure ...