Did you know that you can thank pollinators for one out of every three bites of food you eat? You probably didn't know. In which case you probably aren't thinking much about how your daily life ...

According to several scientific studies, three-quarters of all insects have disappeared in the last 30 years. To counter this ...

Bees: Unsung heroes of our food system. Learn how they contribute billions to Canada’s economy, boost crop yields, and impact ...

Our five-day unit plan on pollinators investigates not only the importance of pollination, but various types of pollinators, what actually happens during pollination and more. Teachers and ...

Pollinators are insects that visit the flowers we grow. They drink the nectar from the flowers and when they do, they get sticky pollen grains on their body which they take from flower to flower ...

For example, the mutualistic interactions between flowering plants and their animal pollinators (Figure 1) are very different from interactions between acacia trees and the ants that inhabit and ...

The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food is offering grants to applicants who wish to build a more pollinator-friendly environment.

when pollinators are much more specific about what they feed on,” Steffen says, listing native alder and willow trees as an example. Steffen, who says he recently “went over the deep edge with ...

butterflies and other pollinators? A research team from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) has investigated this using the example of typical calcareous grassland areas in northern ...

By planting a mini meadow habitat, you'll provide pollinators with food. A variety of plants will attract a wider variety of insects – some prefer particular flower shapes, for example. You can ...

Feb. 4 (UPI) --Scientists with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a new breed of tiny flying robots that weigh less than a gram could take the place of bees as pollinators in indoor ...