Many plants, including crops and the beautiful flowers we like to surround ourselves with, rely on pollination for survival. Pollination is not just the work of honeybees. Meet some of the buzzing, ...

(above) and scabious. The latter two, plus clovers, trefoils and vetches, provide successive food sources for bumblebees To create these habitats on farmland, the G&WCT developed beetle banks and the ...

Swarms of tiny robots, inspired by bees, capable of pollinating crops with surgical precision: these high-tech creations, developed by researchers at MIT, could well become the indispensable allies of ...

Researchers have discovered a new global threat to pollination - artificial light at night, which was found to reduce visits of nocturnal pollinators to flowers by 62%. The impact of this is a ...

Pollinating insects like bees, butterflies and flies have had a rough time of late. A broad library of evidence suggests there has been a widespread decline in their abundance and diversity since the ...

Through pollination and feeding on all parts of plants, insects influence which plants thrive, which struggle, and even ...

Insect populations are in steep decline, which could endanger the food supply. But there are things we can do to reverse the trend. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A panda is worth a thousand wasps. Put a cute picture of one of those black-and-white bears on your front cover or advertising campaign, and watch the cash flow in. A swarm of flies is unlikely to ...

Asian hornets have proliferated across Luxembourg, and these insects can build large nests at inaccessible heights that are ...