By collecting pollen from flowers ... Bumble bees are much more defensive than carpenter bees. A female bumble bee can sting repeatedly without losing its stinger. Neither bee is aggressive ...

Pollen is crucial for every stage of a bumble bee's life history. Newly emerged queens in the spring need to feed themselves and then feed their sister workers. Those workers then take over ...

There are at least 20,000 different species of bees in the world. Many people grow bee-friendly flowers to attract more of these buzzing pollinators to their gardens, but do you know which type is ...

Males buzz about looking to mate. They visit flowers as needed to sustain themselves, but they never collect pollen on their legs to contribute to a colony. The more tedious way to identify the sex of ...

Above: Bumble bees buzz pollinate crops like tomatoes when they collect pollen, which they store in a ball on their hind legs. It’s hard to deny the absolute benefits of the honey bee, but did you ...

Pollen wastage was less severe at 19% ... First, spring is a good season for bee foraging, with many flowers and few insects. Bumble bee colonies, for example, are being established at this ...

Their protein source is pollen and their sugar source, their carbohydrate source is nectar.” This means every time the bumble bee drinks or eats, they’re getting a dose of it. Though often not ...

New research reveals that bees with access to diverse pollen sources in spring and autumn have significantly better winter survival rates.

The buzz of a bumble bee feeding at a willow catkin is a sure sign that spring has arrived to Interior Alaska. As more and more flowers unfurl to offer their nectar and pollen rewards, a dizzying ...