The bee is one of nature’s most prolific pollinators. There are over 20,000 bee species, most of which spread pollen between flowers. Bees can be divided into groups based on their social behavior.

As bees collect nectar, pollen from the flowers sticks to their bodies. When bees visit other blossoms, they transfer this pollen, facilitating the reproduction of plants and ensuring biodiversity.

Honey is made after bees collect nectar from flowers and store it in their bodies. As enzymes break down the nectar into simple sugars, bees will regurgitate this substance to one another until it ...

Males generally don’t help collect nectar or pollen, protect and maintain the hive, ... Those thousands of female worker bees may not themselves reproduce, but the queen is their mother.

Throughout the spring and summer, bees collect pollen and nectar from flowers and use it to make honey. In the winter — when flowers aren’t producing pollen and nectar — bees eat the honey ...

Bees collect nectar from robotic flowers as part of ETSU research by: Murry Lee. Posted: Aug 14, 2024 / 05:12 PM EDT. ... 3 workers rescued from Canadian mine after 60 hours ...

As predicted, female bees prefer visiting oil-flowers in Cucurbitaceae to collect oil, nectar and pollen. The observation of males collecting floral oil from orchids has not been reported before.