The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

The warblers—those harbingers of spring in the U.K.—have an unappreciated talent of a different sort. Common U.K. birds, ...

The ongoing effort captures high-quality images and collection data in seconds, creating an online database of bees, beetles, butterflies and flies ...

We’re thinking about the crisis facing pollinators all wrong. And we’ve come to a crucial moment Last winter, commercial beekeepers lost more than 60% of their colonies – their worst losses on record.

America’s bees and beekeepers are losing a valuable ally just when they need its help most. The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to soon close the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, a ...

Scientists at Kew have been studying pollen structure for many years, and trying to unravel how and why certain structures have evolved. In this blog, I will focus on how structures in pollen of ...

Blue orchard bee. Photo: Scott Bauer. Minnesota is home to over 500 bee species. Some live in large, social colonies, but most are solitary, with fewer than a dozen bees per nest. People manage a few, ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest form of pollination. Rhopalotria furfuracea beetles pollinate the cones of ...

Sunflowers may look self-sufficient, but their seeds tell a different story. In field tests across Bavaria, heads left open to insect pollination produced about 25 percent more than those shielded ...

What Is Pollination? Who or What Pollinates Plants? Types of Pollination Why Is Pollination So Important to Human... Humans Can Be Pollinators, Too A world without pollination is a world without many ...