For many years now, there has been a very strong movement to bring attention to the importance of pollinators in our ecosystem. From my view within the garden industry, this movement has created ...

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, ...

There are five social species of bumble bees (Bombus spp.) native to Florida, and each is an important pollinator throughout the state. Although European honeybees make up about 85 percent of our ...

If you want to get the buzz on Virginia bees, a new exhibit at Bridgewater College will highlight locals who do work to ...

It can be hard to get bees to do their vital work in indoor farms or greenhouses. Instead, the plants may need a little robotic assistance to reproduce. Out in a field, tomato plants are pollinated ...

In a global first, Peru recognizes stingless bees as rights-bearing species, reshaping how insects fit into environmental law ...

Argentine ants compete with bumble bees for prized nectar sources. But the bees are fighting back. Find out how.

Regardless, insect pollination remains essential for pollen movement and achieving economically viable yields of fruits with ...

As the blossoms bloom across Northern Michigan, amateur apiarists are getting ready for a fruitful season with their hardest workers, the bee. The Great Lakes Bee Company held their annual bee pick up ...

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 ...

We tend to think of plants as passive, vulnerable actors. But in their partnership with insects, it’s plants that often play ...