In Texas, most plant pollination is conducted by bees. In a single day, a female bee can visit hundreds of flowers, spreading pollen to each one as she goes. Pollination is perhaps the most ...

The content creator explains that only female bees can sting a human, landing on the skin’s surface before deploying their stinger deep into the flesh. The stinger detaches, and the bee quickly ...

[Really: What busy bees’ brains can teach us about human evolution.] Worker bees generally have the same mother but different fathers, since the queen mates with multiple male bees.

While nectar is a kind of sugar water, pollen is protein-rich, must-need nutrient to bee babies. That honey human consumes is made by female bee workers.

Female Ptiloglossa bees are single moms with a lot to do and little time. Fortunately, they can use a feathery tongue to make infant-care plastics and then brew up batches of baby food.

Margarita Lopez-Uribe reveals how squash bees evolved to thrive on our modern farms. Pollination gets personal when Shane meets Margarita Lopez-Uribe, an entomologist who studies squash bees — a ...

They told me a honey bee colony includes one female queen, many female workers and, depending on the time of year, some male drones. Workers have lots of jobs. They gather nectar and pollen.

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