Pollen rubs off onto the bird's head as it feeds and is thereby transported from flower to flower. The honeybee is one of the goldenrod's best customers, collecting its pollen for protein and its ...

If you were a flowering plant, wouldn't you want your pollen to be received by a plant of your own kind? According to a new study, at least one plant may ensure that happens, by blasting "rival" ...

Scientists from South Africa and Brazil have provided empirical evidence that pollen grains of rival plants may compete with ...

Pollen blasts from Hypenea macrantha flowers knock competitors’ pollen off hummingbird beaks To see if the projectile pollen blew away the competition, evolutionary ecologist Bruce Anderson and ...

This article examines some of the potential side effects of bee pollen. As bees travel from flower to flower collecting pollen, some of that pollen may come from allergenic plants. In many cases ...

Bee pollen may also contain some flower nectar and bee digestive enzymes. Once the bees return home with the pollen they collect, other bees cover it with a small amount of beeswax and honey.

I cannot recall a single allergy relief commercial that does not show misleading pictures of assorted colorful garden flowers ...

According to Kim Eierman, an ecological landscape designer in Bronxville, N.Y., dandelions can appear anywhere, and the weeds ...

The plants start to grow in the spring, then flower in August or September in most parts of the U.S.. The particles of pollen from ragweed plants are tiny and easily carried around by the wind.

Supplements derived from bee pollen, which is comprised of flower pollen, nectar, enzymes, honey, wax, and bee secretions, are becoming increasingly sought-after due to their myriad health benefits.

Lots of plants rely on insects like bees to reproduce. To make a seed, a flower needs to be pollinated. This means that pollen from one flower needs to travel to another. Bees are very important ...