In the last two decades many papers have been published on issues concerning bee pollen.
Some have related to nutritional and therapeutic claims supported by scientific based …

Pollen identification and quantification are crucial but challenging tasks in addressing a
variety of evolutionary and ecological questions (pollination, paleobotany), but also for other …

Background Pollen is an important source of protein and lipids for many animals including
honey bees. In order to understand the foraging behaviour of honey bee colonies and …

Western honey bees (Apis mellifera) are dominant crop pollinators, and access to summer
forage is a critical factor influencing colony health in agricultural landscapes. In many …

Honey adulteration generates low quality products on the market. The study aimed to find a
simple, specific and less time-consuming method than standard melissopalynology only, for …

The aim of the study was to use melissopalynology to delineate the foraging preferences of
bees in tropical environs. This was done by comparing pollen spectra obtained from the …

Austrian beekeepers participated in the “CSI Pollen” study as citizen scientists and collected
pollen from honey bee colonies in hive mounted traps every three weeks from April to …

[EN] In this paper, we summarize the results of our long-date research on the genus
Centaurea. The first part of the paper deals with the overall classification of the genus, which …

This review focuses on previous work on honey pollen analysis (melissopalynology) to
determine the bee floras of South Asian honeys. After a brief historical introduction on …

Simple Summary Honey bee colonies collect pollen from plants as a source of nutrients.
Diverse diets comprising pollen from many different plant species are beneficial for honey …