When scientists want to know where a honeybee has traveled, they usually just look in its pollen basket. That's the dense region of sticky hairs on their legs where bees shove pollen grains, ...

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 ...

Like all living things, honeybees need protein. The protein that bees use comes from plant pollen. Grains of pollen contain amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. As bees gather from different ...

One of the amusements a garden can provide is watching the birds, bees, butterflies and other critters drawn to it. Most of us have seen honeybees flying from flower to flower, sipping nectar or ...

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 ...

Last weekend during the nice weather, I was watching my bees returning to the hive from destinations unknown with bright orange pollen baskets the size of basketballs! I just thought they were getting ...

Discover how bumblebee flight stability varies with nectar and pollen loads, impacting their ability to navigate windy conditions. Think your airline's bag fees are burdensome? Try flying after ...

It’s National Honey Bee Day, and a great time to reflect on these amazing and diligent insects, the art of raising them, and the issues facing them both. Commercial apiculture — beekeeping — focuses ...

Beekeepers all over the world have reported significant colony losses in the last ten years. Those may be caused by the interconnected effects of pesticides, parasites, landscape changes and a warmer ...