Sunflowers make bees poop—a lot. Here’s why that’s good. The flower’s pollen works like a medicine for bumblebees afflicted with a nasty parasite.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bees prefer floral paintings - even if they have never seen flowers before, scientists have suggested. University of London's Queen Mary college researchers put four paintings - two of flowers - ...