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Bees pollinate in the spring because this is when both plants and bees most need each other. After winter, flowering plants begin to bloom, offering fresh pollen and nectar. For bees, these foods are ...

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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A bee flies from flower to flower collecting pollen and nectar Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, at the Northland Arboretum in Baxter. 1/19: Bees collect pollen and nectar Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, at the ...

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.

Honeybees rely on plant pollen as a protein-packed food source. And some are even willing to steal from other bees to get it. Pollen stealing has been seen before, in the United States. But now, ...

We’re currently dealing with winter conditions, but to warm us up, I thought I’d cover something we observe, but may not fully understand, in spring, summer, and fall: why do bees visit flowers? Much ...