explaining that they recycle every tasty morsel by feeding them to local bees in order to curb their declining population. The process begins when the Walt Disney World event decorating support ...

A 2005 study found that bees evaluate the quality of nectar relative to their most recent feeding experience: Bees trained to visit a feeder with medium-quality nectar accepted it readily ...

Urban and suburban residents can also use sunflowers to feed bees so long as they are pollen producers. Miller recommends carefully reading seed packet labels to avoid pollenless varieties.

Christian W. W. Pirk received funding from University of Pretoria and the National Research Foundation of South Africa. Honey bees are useful not only to humans but to other “free riders ...