One of the best flowers for bees, the Honeybee Conservancy ranks bee balm as a favorite flower for the winged workers. Bee ...

To provide nectar and pollen for bees and pollinators all-year round, our expert gardeners have put together the best plants for bees for every season. We've also grown many of these plants in our ...

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

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

This means less food for bees and other pollinators, which visit flowers for the nectar and pollen that they provide. The research was carried out by scientists at the Universities of Exeter and ...

Pollen blasts from Hypenea macrantha flowers knock competitors’ pollen off hummingbird beaks To see if the projectile pollen blew away the competition, evolutionary ecologist Bruce Anderson and ...

Bee orchids mimic the shape and scent of bees in order to lure them into ‘pseudocopulation’, where the male insect attempts to mate with the flower. While the bee gets nothing but a wasted effort, the ...

So if there aren’t enough flowers, there won’t be enough nectar to make the honey that honey bees need. But you can help!

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?