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.

Because bees are out working first thing in the morning. And they like warm, bright flowers lit up by the sun. So, the flowers need to be in place before the bees arrive. Researchers found that if ...

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 ...

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 - ...

Karen’s keen lens caught bees covered in pollen after they collected it from the flowers. She said: “Walking through the sunflowers today it was a pleasure to see so many bees.

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 ...