SciShow
How Plants Attract Bodyguards
Why would non-flowering leaves produce nectar? Plants adapted behaviors to recruit insects in order to protect themselves. Caterpillars might want to eat the tasty leaves, but not if ants attack them first. When caterpillars start eating...
Be Smart
How Do Bees Make Honey?
A queen bee may lay between 600-1,500 eggs per day during her three to four year reign. This fact and many others are contained in a video that shows scholars how bees turn nectar from flowers into honey, traveling thousands of miles to...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Tale of Two Tongues
Two recent studies explore tongue design and function- how they are used for lapping by dogs and for nectar retrieval by hummingbirds. [4:26]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Getting the Springtime Buzz on Bees
A look at research into the behavior of bees as they work at pollinating flowers. Caffeine, which is present in nectar, turns out to be something that helps bees to remember types of flowers they have visited. Aired Mar. 8, 2013 [29:21 min]