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 ...

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 ...

(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 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, ...