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 ...

The flower’s pollen works like a medicine for bumblebees afflicted with a nasty parasite. A common eastern bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) gathers pollen in a field of yellow sunflowers, plants whose ...

The spiny texture of sunflower pollen reduces infections of a common gut pathogen in bees by up to 94 per cent. Wild plants and food crops rely heavily on bees for pollination. The loss of habitat and ...

Studies conducted in central Wyoming with three hybrid varieties of oilseed sunflowers, Helianthus annuus L., unbagged (open) heads had significantly more developed seeds and higher total seed weight ...