The bees are working very hard to collect all of the pollen they can. Nectar is very scarce at this time of the year, and the pollen will be one of their winter’s food sources. The collection of fall ...

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Bee pollen contains protein, vitamins, and minerals. In humans, it may help regulate the immune system and promote wound healing. But, collecting it may adversely affect the health of the bees and ...

Certain areas of rural Pennsylvania and New York are home to thousands of honey bees, which have undergone an interesting scientific procedure— they have been equipped with tiny QR codes on their ...

1/19: Bees collect pollen and nectar Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, at the Northland Arboretum in Baxter. Kelly Humphrey / Brainerd Dispatch 2/19: Bees collect pollen and nectar Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, ...

Biologists have tagged hundreds of bees with QR codes so they can track their movements, and in doing so they have finally begun to solve the mystery of how far bees travel from the hive when they are ...

In late summer last year my doctor prescribed a monthlong course of antibiotics for an infection. Medicines like antibiotics are great at wiping out bacterial infections. The problems is that these ...

A honeybee collects pollen from Japanese privet. (Photo by David Ammon) STARKVILLE, Miss.—While flowers are known to be most attractive to bees, less is known about the nutrition flowers actually ...

Well, we blinked, and now it’s August, usually the dog days of summer, a.k.a. SoCal’s hottest temps of the year, when your zucchini go into hyperdrive and your tomatoes stop producing because it’s ...