Pollinators provide essential ecosystem services, and approximately 87% of flowering plants benefit from animal pollination. Bees are particularly important pollinators of both crops and wildflowers. However, bee populations are in decline. These declines are attributed to factors that include exposure to agrochemicals, pests and pathogens, and habitat loss. Social bees, such as honey bees and bumble bees must balance the dynamic nutritional needs of the hive with resource availability, that is, flowering plants that provide nectar and pollen resources. To do so, honey bees and bumble bees possess unique strategies to communicate colony needs and allocate foragers to the task of gathering resources. For example, honey bees have an elaborate dance communication system that allows bees to share information about the quality of a resource, and the distance and direction to that resource. This is thought to allocate cohorts of foragers to patches in the landscape that have the highest rate of reward production. On the other hand, bumble bees are not understood to possess such an elaborate system of communication, but instead use a trapline foraging strategy, whereby individual bees learn and remember routes among profitable resource patches that minimize distances traveled and maximize resource acquisition. For this research we sought to explore the relationship between these foraging strategies, and the foraging activity and pollen collection patterns of honey bees (Apis mellifera) and bumble bees (Bombus impatiens) in a shared landscape. The study took place at the West Madison Agricultural Research Station (WMARS) in southern Wisconsin. We began by observing the temporal foraging activity of honey bees and bumble bees using radio frequency identification (RFID). We concurrently collected pollen samples from bees returning from foraging bouts to determine the identity of pollen they were collecting, and the protein and amino acid content of collected pollen. Our findings are discussed in the context of the challenges bees face in acquiring resources, and the strategies they use to address them.