Butterflies and bees are important garden visitors — they’re both pollinators, which means they help plants reproduce. When ...

Once the temps drop and snowflakes begin to fall, it’s easy to assume that insects have simply disappeared. And while many do ...

My new research shows that bees, in particular, don’t really care about the landscape surrounding flower gardens. They seem to zero in on the particular types of flowers they like, no matter ...

Native bee biodiversity is essential to ensuring the effective pollination of plants — especially wildflowers. Many plants have such special relationships with their bee pollinators that only certain ...

Want to know the core plants you can grow to add beauty while helping beneficial garden friends? Discover the best ...

The researchers found that the horned-face bees tended to prefer plants with a large number of flowers—for them, quantity was most important. Meanwhile, the alfalfa leafcutting bees tended to ...

Pollinators are vital to agricultural productivity and maintaining natural ecosystems. Their absence can have devastating ...

Almost 90% of wild plants and 75% of leading global crops depend on animal pollination. One out of every three mouthfuls of our food depends on pollinators such as bees. Crops that depend on ...

In the course of her lifetime, a worker bee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 miles and tap two million flowers. In a single ...

Researchers put a sensor at the entrance of beehives to register each time the pollinators entered or exited, and how long ...