These flowers contain grayanotoxin, a neurotoxin with psychoactive effects that's toxic to humans in high doses. When bees collect nectar from these rhododendron flowers, they transfer the ...

For a single teaspoon of honey, a bee must visit approximately 5,000 flowers. This effort requires flying nearly 80 ...

“In our untouched forests, the purple rhododendron blooms in spring,” Kutluata tells CNN. The bees collect nectar from those ...

Researchers have observed some wolves visiting as many as 30 flowers at a time, drawn by their apparently sweet and delicious nectar.

Bees collect nectar and pollen from the various floral sources over the spring and summer months. Honey changes from year to year, depending on the amount of rainfall during the season and what ...

They need bees to spread their pollen and help make new seeds. Bees love nectar so flowers offer up their nectar as a reward for visiting them. And they’ve got manyways of showing what’s on offer.

Some flowers give the bees a sugary reward called nectar too. It’s not just plants that need bees; we need them too. Without them we’d have very little food. Lots of our fruit and vegetables ...