The diversity of bees and of the flowers they pollinate, has declined significantly in Britain and the Netherlands over the last 25 years according to research led by the University of Leeds and ...

For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter ...

In order to reproduce, most flowering plants rely on animals to move their pollen. In turn, pollinators rely on flowers for food, including both nectar and pollen. If you're a gardener, you might want ...

Bees leave an electric trace on pollinated flowers, telling other bees the flower is tapped out. A study found fertilizers change that electric field and put bumblebees off from fertilizing. Bees are ...

Did you know that honey bees are not native to the United States?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Symptoms of climate change are affecting the honeybee population as well as other pollinators, which are vital to the economy and ...

Out in a field, tomato plants are pollinated either by wind shaking flowers or by bees, which fly into the flowers and vibrate, releasing the pollen into the air. But inside a greenhouse or indoor ...

Flowers pollinated by honeybees make fewer and lower-quality seeds than flowers visited by other pollinators. That could be because honeybees spend more time buzzing between flowers of the same plant ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heiko119 / Getty Images Many plants need to be pollinated to produce fruits or seeds to make more plants. But if pollinators are ...

From fundamental biological units as tiny as genes to complex societies, ecological systems rely on cooperation. All manner ...

Researchers have developed a new method to rapidly identify the sources of bee pollen to understand which flowers are important for bees. Bees are in vast decline in the UK and across Europe, as are ...