The article highlights the work of Magda Argueta-Guzmán, a biologist and former UC Riverside doctoral student mentored by Quinn McFrederick, whose research focuses on native bees, flowers, and their microbiomes. It describes her upcoming seminar on how wild bees use both floral and non-floral resources for feeding, nesting, and raising offspring, emphasizing that simply observing bees visiting flowers does not fully explain which resources are most important to their survival and reproduction. The article also discusses her research showing that solitary bees can both acquire and spread beneficial bacteria through flowers, supporting the idea of a two-way microbial exchange between plants and pollinators. More broadly, her work aims to better understand biodiversity, ecosystem stability, and how environmental changes such as climate change affect bee populations and pollination systems.