Insects are the primary pollinators of most flowers and crops. Niklas_Weidner/500px via Getty Images Rachel Mallinger: A lot of different insects pollinate. Insects visit flowers for many purposes, ...

In Nepal's remote mountain district of Jumla, preparation for a family meal begins long before food reaches the cooking pot.

If you want flowers that you will love just as much as the bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies there are a few things you ...

Using a mobile stamen to slap away insect visitors maximizes pollination and minimizes costs to flowers, a study shows. For centuries scientists have observed that when a visiting insect's tongue ...

We see them everywhere in spring: colorful flowers that seem to call out to bees, butterflies, and other insects. These visitors, called pollinators, are essential for the reproduction of flowering ...

Researchers hope to develop a deeper understanding of how the crop flowers of cotton and peanuts meet bees’ dietary needs or ...

A wide range of plant species rely on insects for pollination, but the diversity of these insect-pollinated plants have decreased dramatically in recent decades Wild flowers are essential to bees and ...

Many plants, from crops to carnations, cannot bear fruit or reproduce without bees, beetles, butterflies and other insects to pollinate them. But the population of insect pollinators is dropping in ...

The term wildflower includes many types of flowering plants that contribute greatly to the beauty of gardens and balconies.

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. In the summers of 2018 and 2019, ecologist James Ryalls and his colleagues would go out to a field near Reading in southern England to stare ...

Biologists say there’s more to your favourite flowers than just beauty. Their different colours, petal shapes and scents are ...