Bumblebees show impressive learning skills, especially queen bees. Caffeine in nectar tricks bees into revisiting flowers by boosting memory.
The vast majority (87%) of the insects we saw were bumble bees. Of the flower traits we measured (number of flowers per square meter, their length, and the amount of nectar sugar produced per ...
However, bees can be a major nuisance while camping, especially if you are allergic to their stings. Bees are attracted ...
You know honeybees make honey, but did you know they make bread too? And four other types of bees are also dedicated chefs!
There are 46 species of large, furry bumble bees in North American ... and purple flowers are extremely attractive to them.
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The large flowers attract the big pollinators, especially bumble bees and squash bees, which can handle their large pollen grains. In fact, squash bees are specialists which only visit squash and ...
Garden bees are extremely important pollinators of both native plants and commercial crops. Their flower visits insure ...
Some species have very long tongues that enable them to sip nectar from plants that have long, tubular or spurred flowers such as native beardtongue, foxglove, Virginia bluebells and columbine.
Then, a bumblebee shows up and goes through all the flowers. Timon and Pumbaa see the bee and start chasing it and while doing so, they run into obstacles. After failing to catch the bee, Timon and ...
Solano RCD is offering free in-person workshops to help people learn how to provide a Monarch habitat in as little as ...