A severe shortage of bees has kicked off an initiative to build a thousand hives as a deadly parasite threatens to wipe out the wild pollinators.

The Day I Stopped Trying to Please EveryoneThere is a term called pollination syndrome. It refers to the phenomenon where, as ...

A field experiment on the Tibetan Plateau shows that artificial light at night collapses moth visitation, boosts flies, and ...

An international study led by researchers from Charles University in Prague (CUNI) and the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences (BC CAS) has mapped how closely flowering plants and their ...

The Israeli agtech company will use its Series A funding to expand deployment of its YAHAV2400 platform, deepen grower ...

Honeybees, which are not native to the United States, may be outcompeting native bees for pollen. Ed Reschke via Getty Images Honeybees are often heralded as a symbol of biodiversity and a key species ...

A research team has identified CsBZS1, a cucumber gene associated with fruit development without pollination. By narrowing a ...

The USDA Economic Research Service released the June Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook on June 18. Though the monthly report is focused on sugar prices and production and import volume, this month’s report ...

GCSE biology a distant memory? Here’s how plants reproduce, and how to encourage them If you’re growing any plants for fruit, getting your head around pollination is key to ensuring a bountiful ...

The economic value of insect pollinators was $34 billion in the U.S. in 2012, much higher than previously thought, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University.

Pollinators -- such as bees, butterflies and birds -- are essential for agricultural production. However, natural pollination can also fail or be insufficient, which can lead to lower yields and ...

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 ...