Gardens buzz with life, especially when they host flowers that attract bees. These industrious pollinators are drawn 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As winter ends and the weather begins to warm, the buzzing of bees will increase. Instead of focusing on the well-known European ...

Help your garden by helping the environment.

National Pollinator Week is June 21-27. To celebrate, let’s look at some of our important pollinators. First a botany review. Pollination occurs when pollen is moved within a flower or, in the case of ...

There are lots of things that can be planted. You can plant flowers, bushes, trees and other plants. You can plant your feet.

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 ...

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 ...

Invasive bees are quietly reshaping Chile’s pollination networks, altering ecosystems and threatening native species.

Biological invasions are a major driver of biodiversity loss and invasive pollinators can reshape native plant-pollinator ...

With warmer temperatures and blooming flowers, honey bees are emerging across the Concho Valley, signaling the start of a ...

Bees aren’t the only insects pollinating red clover. Moths do about a third of the flower visits after dark, new research suggests. The findings, detailed in the July Biology Letters, come as a ...