long-horned bee (Melissodes denticulatus), which feasts primarily on ironweed (Vernonia fasciculata), also a member of the sunflower family. If you want to offer flowers that have the highest protein ...

Bees release microbes during this process, which can alter their gut microbiome. Scientists thought that monocultures such as sunflower fields would lead to the restructuring and homogenization of ...

seas of sunflowers bloom in fields and farms. The flowers, which grow at the top of long, one- to three-meter stems, appear to us to be somewhat uniform, with bright yellow rings of petals adorning ...

Welcome to the sunflower family, you little wooly devil. Every day, your garden’s tiniest visitors are hard at work. The lovely little butterflies you see floating by and those always-busy bees ...