We're a bit hung up on bees at The Chronicle this year. Between the rise of urban beekeeping and the decline of bee populations worldwide, Home & Garden Editor Deb Wandell and I have hopes of ...

The team has found mixed results for sunflower pollen on C. bombi in other bee species—modest effects on two species closely related to the common eastern bumblebee and no effect on a third.

Medicinal value of sunflower pollen against bee pathogens. Scientific Reports, 2018; 8 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32681-y; Cite This Page: MLA; APA; Chicago; North Carolina State University.

A bumble bee mid-pollination on a sunflower. Bee Vectoring Technologies. Honey bees pollinate $15 billion in food crops in the U.S. every year. Worldwide, ...

The spiny texture of sunflower pollen reduces infections of a common gut pathogen in bees by up to 94 per cent. Wild plants and food crops rely heavily on bees for pollination.