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 ...

Bee pollen is the flower pollen from various plants, including buckwheat, maize, pine and typha. Worker bees collect pollen on their legs and bodies, mix it with salivary gland secretions or nectar, ...

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If you're curious about how to eat bee pollen, know this: It differs significantly from honey, the sticky stuff you're likely more familiar with, as well as other edible bee products, including ...

We’re currently dealing with winter conditions, but to warm us up, I thought I’d cover something we observe, but may not fully understand, in spring, summer, and fall: why do bees visit flowers? Much ...

Some bees have developed a taste for carrion, in a delightfully twisted evolutionary turn. These vulture bees, as they’re known, feature unique gut microbes that help them digest meat. A team of ...

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 ...

On an afternoon in late summer, the bees that live at a Long Beach mall were flying high, winging their way back to their hives atop a parking garage. Upon their return, they emptied the “pollen pants ...