Save the Bees: Sunflower Pollen Could Boost Insects' Health. Published Sep 26, 2018 at 10:26 AM EDT Updated Sep 27, 2018 at 4:42 AM EDT. By . Kashmira Gander is Deputy Science Editor at Newsweek.

Bumble bees, Bombus impatiens, on the sunflower pollen diet were less likely to test positive for, Crithidia bombi, a common bumble bee parasite.European honey bees, Apis mellifera, fed sunflower ...

I have an idea: Why not grow some annual sunflowers, Helianthus annuus, to feed the bees, butterflies, birds, and you? They are so easy to start from seed, so if you have never grown plants from ...

However, noting sunflower pollen is not a silver bullet, Dr. Alder indicates that, “Bees do not do well eating just sunflower, but it may be part of a solution. They are going to need other and varied ...

Solitary mason bees specializing on sunflower pollen were not attacked by a common brood-parasitic wasp, which lays eggs in the nests, where its larvae kill bee eggs and eat their pollen provisions.

For the experiment, scientists gave bees from a hive food scented with a sunflower-like odor. When hives with scent-trained bees were used to pollinate sunflowers, the researchers observed a boost ...

Sunflowers are native to North America and were cultivated by native Americans thousands of years ago for oil, food and decoration. In the 1500s, the Spanish conquerors took sunflowers back to Europe.

As I sit on my front porch attempting to soak warmth from the sun into my still-frozen winter bones, one of the biggest bumblebees I’ve ever seen flies by. Not quite the size of a B-17 bomber ...

Sunflowers require pollination by insects, usually bees, to produce a seed crop. In turn, honey bees and many species of native bees, benefit from the abundant nectar and pollen that sunflowers ...

The first step required researchers to synthetically craft a scented compound mimicking the smell of sunflowers in the eyes, or rather noses, of bees. A sunflower contains over 300 naturally scented ...

To bee or not to bee? There is no question if you want to help San Francisco State biology Associate Professor Gretchen LeBuhn with her Great Sunflower Project. LeBuhn is undertaking a national ...

Native sunflowers are found in all 48 lower states. All wild types produce pollen, as well as nectar and seeds, and are great favorites among pollinating insects, as well as birds and mammals.