Female bees are the most important pollinators in our region, because they collect pollen and nectar to feed their offspring. This means they visit more flowers per unit time and are more likely to ...

Presenter, Maddie Moate, and professional beekeeper, Curtis Thompson, lead five kids from across ... they carry it away. When a bee lands on another plant the pollen rubs off on a part of the ...

Almost 90% of wild plants and 75% of leading global crops depend on animal pollination. One out of every three mouthfuls of our food depends on pollinators such as bees. Crops that depend on ...

We’ve shown that pollinator biodiversity tends to be higher in larger fragments of the Garry Oak Ecosystem, but this is largely due to the response of some (but not all) nesting guilds of bees. Pollen ...

While the bee gets nothing but a wasted effort, the orchid transfers some of its pollen to the bee. When the bee flies off and lands on another orchid it deposits the pollen, allowing the flowers to ...

And a large proportion of the world’s food supply is directly, or indirectly, affected by honey bee pollination. Here in the UK around 70 crops are dependent upon, or benefit from, visits by ...

Bees are trucked over great distances to pollinate crops from almonds to alfalfa ... “It’s sort of the idea of sending your kids off to daycare and them getting sick and coming back and ...

Bees and other pollinators, such as butterflies, bats and hummingbirds, are increasingly under threat from human activities. Pollination is, however, a fundamental process for the survival of our ...

For many of us, the simple honey bee is something we only associate with honey and painful stings. But beekeepers understand ...