We're a bit hung up on bees at The Chronicle this year. Between the rise of urban beekeeping and the decline of bee populations worldwide, Home & Garden Editor Deb Wandell and I have hopes of someday ...

Here's another opportunity to do your bit for science without leaving your yard. San Francisco State University biologist Gretchen LeBuhn wants you to grow a sunflower - not just any old sunflower, ...

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 ...

With bee populations in decline, a new study offers hope for a relatively simple mechanism to promote bee health and well-being: providing bees access to sunflowers. The study, conducted by ...