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, ...

Butterflies add some beauty to your garden, and other pollinators in general will help it grow. Therefore, some gardeners are ...

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 ...

As a designated National Geographic Explorer, Bertie Gregory traverses the globe documenting wild life in all its complexity.

Smoke pours over the colony of bees, dousing the air in a sweet, earthy smell of burning wood. Drake Elting holds the smoker ...

Planting native plants for pollinators is one of the easiest and most impactful ways to support bees, butterflies, and other ...

These container-garden flowers and plants are popular with a wide range of bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get a honeybee near a rose or a lavender and the insect will extend its strawlike tongue to search for nectar, pollinating the flower in the process. That’s at least how it works in clean environments ...

Loss of essential pollinator insects because of the changing climate could lead to some of our favorite treats getting a lot more expensive, research has found. Various plant crops such as coffee, ...

UW scientist Madison Crawford, in the background, studies the rare Laramie chickensage, which can be seen with its distinctive yellow flowerheads in the foreground. (Lusha Tronstad Photo) A rare ...