Insect pollination is a decisive process for the survival and evolution of angiosperm (flowering) plants and, to a lesser extent, gymnosperms (without visible flower or fruit). There is a growing ...

Pollinators like bees and butterflies are vanishing across the world due to toxic pesticides and habitat loss, threatening ...

Scientists have discovered that flowering plants growing in farmland are increasingly doing without insect pollinators. As reproduction becomes more difficult for them in an environment depleted in ...

Pollinators have economic and health benefits, but those benefits have been difficult to quantify. A new study puts some numbers to how important pollinators are for both nutrition and income.

In fields, forests, and backyard gardens, insects are quietly at work securing ecosystems and global supply chains. Over 75 percent of all flowering plants, including many fruits, vegetables, and nuts ...

Biodiversity loss is directly threatening human health and welfare, according to new research led by the University of ...

The Green Bay Botanical Garden is offering pollinator kits to help residents create habitats for butterflies, bees and other insects that play a critical role in the ecosystem and local agriculture.

Native plants and insects evolved together making them the best match for each other. Nativar flowers often have reduced ...

Insects play an important role in the world’s food production. Roughly 70 percent of all crop species, including apples, strawberries and cocoa, depend on them for pollination. Insects rely on a ...

There are many beneficial insects that you can attract to your garden to help control populations of bad bugs. This simple ...