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Bumblebees collect pollen by various methods. Some types of flowers, such as potato plants, need tougher treatment to make them release their pollen. In these cases, the bee uses a technique called ...

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 ...

Solitary bees display a remarkable diversity of pollen foraging strategies that balance the nutritional requirements of larvae with the morphological and chemical defences of pollen sources.

When people talk about helping bees, the advice is usually simple: plant more flowers. That advice is not wrong. Bees do need flowers. But new research led by the University of Oxford suggests the ...