The first days of spring – brighter and warmer – are a biological trigger for female bees to wake up from hibernation and begin to build future colonies. These enormous bees, sometimes two to three ...
The bees are working very hard to collect all of the pollen they can. Nectar is very scarce at this time of the year, and the pollen will be one of their winter’s food sources. The collection of fall ...
1/19: Bees collect pollen and nectar Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, at the Northland Arboretum in Baxter. Kelly Humphrey / Brainerd Dispatch 2/19: Bees collect pollen and nectar Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, ...
We’re currently dealing with winter conditions, but to warm us up, I thought I’d cover something we observe, but may not fully understand, in spring, summer, and fall: why do bees visit flowers? Much ...