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Sunflower yields rise with insect pollination, showing how biodiversity and simple farm practices support harvests.

Climate change is turning up the heat in blueberry fields. Learn how rising temperatures can disrupt blueberry pollination.

An ecosystem is a web of interactions between many different organisms, all adapted to live in harmony with each other — or sworn enemies constantly evolving and adapting to outwit the other.

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Humans are animal chauvinists: we like our insects pretty. As fall arrives, the monarch butterfly and praying mantids may ...

If you love figs, you may have heard some unsettling lore about them: that every fig hides a wasp, because these insects need ...

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