You know honeybees make honey, but did you know they make bread too? And four other types of bees are also dedicated chefs!

Honeybees collect pollen from plants, mix it with a small amount of saliva or nectar, and place it in “baskets” on their hind legs. The field or worker bees collect and transport the bee ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here, worker bees construct new comb out of beeswax as others zoom into the woodpecker cavity carrying pollen and nectar. Unlike ants, which have specialized roles, every worker bee is capable of ...

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

However, oilseed rape is partially wind-pollinated, so some pollen may have been blown from the flowers. It is unlikely that bees collected all 81%. Why is so much oilseed rape nectar wasted?

Muth studies the dynamics of reward and manipulation that play out between bumblebees and the plants that they visit. It is well known that plants reward bees with sugar-rich nectar to motivate ...

Bees play a critically important role in biodiversity. They’re active pollinators, promote the growth of crops, and provide pollen ... local store will likely carry many different bee sprays ...

Ground bees are most active on warm sunny days when females collect pollen and nectar, which they carry back to their nests. The bees are usually seen flying low to the ground and often go unnoticed.