“I started noticing, man, every time we run these experiments, the bees that are fed sunflower pollen are so much dirtier than the bees that eat wildflower pollen,” Giacomini remember ...

Attracted by the warm, bright blossoms, the bee loads up on pollen and sugary nectar, pollinating the flowers as it goes. It all started way before the plants even bloomed. Young sunflower plants ...

Sunflowers require pollination by insects, usually bees, to produce a seed crop. In turn, honey bees and many species of native bees, benefit from the abundant nectar and pollen that sunflowers ...

I have an idea: Why not grow some annual sunflowers, Helianthus annuus, to feed the bees, butterflies, birds, and you? They are so easy to start from seed, so if you have never grown plants from ...

The bees landed on the two most floral. Van Gogh's Sunflowers was favourite. The study, made on three colonies raised in captivity and which had never seen flowers, was reported in the journal Optics ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Bees are soaking up the summer pollen of blooming sunflowers. Camera club snappers have been out and about this week capturing striking ...