Native plants support native insects, which maintain seed production and support migratory birds that keep the terrestrial ...

Happy pollinators, happy plants.

It can be hard to get bees to do their vital work in indoor farms or greenhouses. Instead, the plants may need a little robotic assistance to reproduce. Out in a field, tomato plants are pollinated ...

When summer heat pushes past comfortable limits, gardens can quickly shift from lively ecosystems into silent, stressed ...

Gardeners dealing with water limits often discover that certain native shrubs deliver both visual interest and ecological value without heavy irrigation. The golden currant fits this description ...

Bees aren’t the only insects pollinating red clover. Moths do about a third of the flower visits after dark, new research suggests. The findings, detailed in the July Biology Letters, come as a ...

Fertilizers may change the way flowers "look" to bees and discourage them from pollinating, a study suggests. Flowers attract bees using small electric fields that bees can learn to recognize. The ...

That vote came after Celebrate Lexington identified several local flowers and surveyed the public. During Pollinator Week, ...

An international research team led by the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research at the University of Vienna has made an extraordinary discovery: fossilized lime blossoms and fossilized bumble ...

Carmen da Silva of Macquarie University's Pollinator Futures Research Center examined nearly 3,500 bees from 95 native ...

My frustration with urban wildlife reached its peak this week when I went out to look at my Eva’s Pride peach tree one ...