Bees can taste the pollen they collect, and favour the sweet kind. Felicity Muth and her colleagues at the University of Nevada in Reno offered bumblebees (Bombus impatiens) an artificial flower ...

Bees use pollen as brood food, to feed the queen ... have to walk through the mesh trap to enter the hive and, as they do so, the mesh scrapes some of the pollen off their legs into a collection ...

All of the bees ... pollen. As this evaporates, it helps reduce the heat and keep the hive cool. Some of the bees also beat their wings to circulate air inside the hive." Honeybees will continue ...

So how do these insects make ... pollen between flowers, bees also help pollinate flowers. These often turn into the seeds of the fruit and nuts we eat. In fact, about one-third of the food ...

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 ...

"Blueberry pollen isn't very nutritious for honey bees, and they aren't adapted well to pollinating that crop. But if they have this supplemental food source ... best way to make use of this ...

By C. Claiborne Ray A. Foraging bees use the same methods to find nectar and pollen four floors up that they use at ground level. Honeybees routinely fly two miles from their hives in their search ...

This is a kind of bee dance by one bee that gives other bees information on where food sources ... allow you to make observations in a way that humans could not possibly do it," López-Uribe ...

Honey bees are vital to the ... working toward developing a new food source designed to conserve honey bee colonies that are suffering from lack of natural pollen. In their study published this ...

Bees are amazing creatures. Not only do they make tasty honey, but they are also involved in pollinating lots of our food and wild flowers ... For plants to make seeds, pollen has to get from ...

Here, she shares her tips on how to introduce healthy foods to suit ... day for one month to make a teaspoon dose, and each pellet contains more than two million flower pollen grains.