Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's National Pollinator Week, which calls to mind honeybees, bumblebees and butterflies swarming the garden, going from flower to ...

A blowfly on lavender flowers. Flies are the unsung heroes of pollination. They visit flowers to stoke up on energy-rich nectar and protein-rich pollen and transport pollen from flower to flower in ...

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 ...

Most people think a pollinator garden requires tearing up their entire lawn, hiring a landscaper, or knowing the Latin names ...

Flies play a crucial role as pollinators, second only to bees in terms of the volume of crops and habitat they pollinate. Pictured here is a blue fly pollinating common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca).

Despite their reputation as buzzing nuisances, flies serve a critical role as some of the Earth's most prolific pollinators—and new research led by Penn State scientists suggests they are increasingly ...

About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimize reproduction, making pollination one of nature's most important processes. Bees are usually the first insects to ...

This image shows a pollinator fly enjoying the sweet taste of nectar inside the flower of a spicebush. In early spring when woodland plants begin to bloom, insects such as bees, moths, gnats and flies ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro has declared the week of June 17 to 23 as Pollinator Week to highlight pollinators' role in producing foods across the commonwealth.We eat at the end of the pollination cycle and we ...

It's National Pollinator Week, which calls to mind honeybees, bumblebees and butterflies swarming the garden, going from flower to flower in pursuit of nectar and pollen. But there's another insect ...