What renders a city garden attractive to insects such as solitary bees, bumblebees and hoverflies? And how well do they ...

When blooms appear on our fruit trees or vegetable gardens, we happily anticipate a bountiful harvest. If the bees help by doing their pollinating job, the fruits and vegetables should begin to ...

Birds have been visiting and pollinating flowers for at least 47 million years, fossil evidence now suggests. The new find pushes back the onset of ornithophily, or bird pollination, by about 17 ...

This approach could not only save your cucumber harvest but also save your hard-earned cash.

Answer: This question is a good one because the answer is beautiful. Big, fragrant, flamboyant flowers are a good indicator that an insect or other animal pollinates the plant. When the flowers are ...

Using a mobile stamen to slap away insect visitors maximizes pollination and minimizes costs to flowers, a study shows. For centuries scientists have observed that when a visiting insect's tongue ...

The diversity of bees and of the flowers they pollinate, has declined significantly in Britain and the Netherlands over the last 25 years according to research led by the University of Leeds and ...

Researchers in Japan have successfully used a tiny drone to pollinate an actual flower, a task usually accomplished by insects and animals. The remote-controlled drone was equipped with horsehairs ...

The Houston Museum of Natural Science’s corpse flower, Mandrake, is set to begin his pollination process on Sunday morning. Mandrake, whose name was selected from a pool of public submissions during a ...

They may be small, but bees and other insects play a critical role in pollination and maintaining a natural balance in our environment. The short term solution could lie with drones. Eijiro Miyako ...