created more than 140,000 metric tons of honey in 1997. While foraging for nectar and pollen, bees inadvertently transfer pollen from the male to the female components of flowers. Each year ...

This bee is a poppy specialist, gathering pollen from the imperiled Las Vegas bear-poppy (which we have petitioned for) and the endangered dwarf bear-poppy. Mojave poppy bees are threatened by gypsum ...