Bees and butterflies help produce our food by pollinating the crops farmers grow. In fact, 35% of the world's food crops, ...

Who and what are pollinators and why should you care? Bees, wasps, ants, butterflies, moths, flies, and even a few beetles are pollinators and their hard work in our gardens provides food for our ...

UW scientist Madison Crawford, in the background, studies the rare Laramie chickensage, which can be seen with its distinctive yellow flowerheads in the foreground. (Lusha Tronstad Photo) A rare ...

AMES, Iowa – A new study indicates that insects like honey bees in many cases can do a better job of pollinating soybeans than the plants can do on their own. The findings suggest growing soybeans ...

Honey bees aren’t the only insects that pollinate crops, but we often overlook or lump together all other, non-bee pollinators – flies, beetles, moths, butterflies, wasps, ants, birds, and bats, just ...

Why have some plant species changed pollinators in their evolution? An international team of researchers studied the reproductive systems of three sister species pairs, where one species is pollinated ...

A plant is the first ever to be seen mimicking ants to attract pollinators. The species of dogbane imitates the smell of injured insects to entice flies. Researchers discovered that Vincetoxicum ...

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

Ko Mochizuki of the University of Tokyo has discovered that Vincetoxicum nakaianum (a dogbane species native to Japan ...

The yellow-legged hornet, if not controlled, could endanger not only pollination in our yards, but also crops in the U.S., ...

The Laramie chickensage is unusual among the hundreds of species of sagebrush, most of which are primarily pollinated by the wind. A rare species of sagebrush found only in southeast Wyoming survives ...

A rare species of sagebrush found only in southeast Wyoming survives primarily through pollination by bees, according to new research led by a University of Wyoming graduate student. That makes the ...