Plant pollens vary in quality as food sources for bees, and pollen from the sunflower family (the family that includes dandelions, daisies, and thistles) is known to have some unpleasant qualities.

With bee populations in decline, a new study offers hope for a relatively simple mechanism to promote bee health and well-being: providing bees access to sunflowers. The study, conducted by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I have an idea: Why not grow some annual sunflowers, Helianthus annuus, to feed the bees, butterflies, birds, and you? They are so ...

Sept. 26 (UPI) --Great access to sunflowers and their pollen could help keep vulnerable bee populations pathogen-free. In experiments carried out by researchers at North Carolina State University and ...

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SANTA CRUZ — A bee lifts off from a sunflower along 17th Avenue in Live Oak while gathering pollen. According to the Bee Conservancy, “Bees lie at the heart of our survival. They pollinate 1 in 3 ...

CRESTED BUTTE, Colo., June 14 (UPI) --Sunflower pollen specialization has evolved multiple times among bee species, which is odd, because studies show bees fed an all sunflower pollen diet exhibited ...

Bees fed a diet of sunflower pollen show dramatically lower rates of infection by two separate pathogens, suggesting medicinal and protective effects for pollinators in peril. With bee populations in ...

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.